A treatise on the diseases of the eye / By W. Lawrence.

  • Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet
Date:
1847
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    CHAPTER XI. VARIOLOUS, MORBILLOUS, AND SCARLATINOUS OPHTHALMIA. PAGE Variolous ophthalmia . . 310 Secondary variolous ophthalmia . 313 PAGE Morbillous and scarlatinous ophthal- mia . . . .314 CHAPTER XII. VARIOUS AFFECTIONS OF THE CONJUNCTIVA. Granulated conjunctiva—ulcers . 315 Pterygium; general description . ib. Pterygium tenue; crassum . 317 Malignant pterygium . . 318 Diagnosis, treatment . . ib. Pterygium pingue . . . 320 Dry conjunctiva . . . ib. Discoloration of the conjunctiva by nitrate of silver . . . 322 [Copper-colored syphilitic eruption of conjunctiva] . . . 322 Polypi, warts and other excrescences ib. Cartilaginous formations . . 324 Tumors . . . . ib. with hairs . . . ib. encysted . . . 327 CHAPTER XIII. DISEASES OF THE SCLEROTICA. SECTION I. Inflammation Symptoms and progress Diagnosis .... 327 ib. 329 SECTION II. Rheumatic ophthalmia ; Catarrho- rheumatic ophthalmia 330 Chronic rheumatic ophthalmia Catarrho-rheumatic ophthalmia SECTION III. Staphyloma sclerotica? SECTION IV. ■ Cysts and tumors of the sclerotica 331 333 333 335 CHAPTER XIV. DISEASES OF THE CORNEA. SECTION I. Inflammation . . . 336 Acute corneitis with suppuration . 337 Evacuation of matter by puncture . ib. Symptoms of corneitis . . 340 Prognosis . . . .341 Treatment . . . . ib. Partial inflammation of the cornea 342 Strumous corneitis . . . 343 Inflammation with vesication . 345 [Affection of the cornea in nurses] ib. SECTION II. Vascularity of the cornea . . 345 SECTION III. Ulceration of the cornea . . 346 Hernia corneas . . . 348 SECTION IV. Opacity of the cornea . . 348 Arcus senilis . . . ib. Other opacities . . . 349 Treatment .... 350 [Additional remarks on treatment] . ib. Effect of treatment in the various forms of opacity . . . 354 Congenital opacity of the cornea . 356 SECTION V. Staphyloma .... 357 Causes .... 360 Treatment . . . . ib. Adaptation of an artificial eye . 362 Conical cornea . . . ib.