Volume 1
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
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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![t 8* ] vent their being opened, which happens in the fmall pox. In that disease the eye- lids are frequently tumefied and firmly closed for feveral days, and from the confine- ment of the acrid tears, the most dreadful confequences follow. On the eye-lids be- ing again feparated, the conjunctiva is fre- quently found highly inflamed, and the cornea transparens ulcerated. If the cornea ftiould be unaffected and the rednefs of the conjunctiva foon disappear, the eyes will for fome time be liable to a recurrence of the inflammation, from trivial causes, the fame as has been mentioned to happen, after the measles. It is generally fupposed that those opa- cities of the cornea, which fometimes attend the fmall pox, are the consequence of a pustule or pustules being formed there ; and judging a priori, we might naturally con- jecture, that when the face is entirely covered with the eruption, it would be probable the external furface of the eye would not escape.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21439205_0001_0068.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
