Volume 2

A treatise on opthalmy : and those diseases which are induced by inflammations of the eyes : with new methods of cure / by Edward Moore Noble. Part the first[-second].

  • Noble, Edward Moore
Date:
1800-1801
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on opthalmy : and those diseases which are induced by inflammations of the eyes : with new methods of cure / by Edward Moore Noble. Part the first[-second]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    [ 141 ] but that on keeping in exercise till I had an opportunity of changing my drefs, and wiping the skin dry, a pleasant glow was shortly felt over the whole body, which presently diminished the sensation in the nostrils, and the catarrh vanished. If, however, the wet cloathes were not taken off for several hours, friction, and a warm drefs, were not able to produce a sufficient action of the skin to exhaust the accumulat- ed irritability, when the catarrh became established. When the change of temperature is sudden and great, such an irregular action takes place in the various orders of vefsels, that disease is almost inevitable. Richard Edwards^ of Liverpool, a healthy young man, 28 years of age, with black hair and a ruddy complexion, went into some fresh water, which was about the temperature of mild weather, viz. about 40 degrees, by the thermometer. He continued in this water 34 minutes, and then went into a warm bath at go degrees. Here, for the