Cursory notes on the morbid eye / [Robert Hull].

  • Hull, Robert
Date:
1840
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Credit: Cursory notes on the morbid eye / [Robert Hull]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I would exhort the English surgeon, ignorant of arthritic ophthalmia, to whose oculis fidelibus it hath not been swubjecta; when he meets a case of iritis or hyaloiditis, answering to those described by authors, yet unattended by general arthritic symptoms; to respect only the gravity of the ocular symptoms, and abject the cumbersome idea of gout. He will err, if at all, on the safer side. Let him attack the iritis; the hyaloiditis threatening glaucoma; the purulent ophthalmia, to which the Germans testify, with ap- portioned vigor. Because, if they be treated with tenderness, when they are not really arthritic, they may end in destruction of sight. Case.—Mr. B., a little potbellied publican and sinner, complained to me of an external ophthalmia on the 20th of June, 1827. The sclerotica likewise was exceedingly implicated, and the subjective symp- toms were very smart. A blister to the nape and an ordinary collyrium were prescribed. On the 24th the pains had increased, and I ordered him the calomel and opium. On the succeeding day the pupil became contracted, and I dreaded the advent of iritis. The pains likewise still increased in spite of mercurial and antimonial frictions, and being nocturnal gave a pe- culiarity to the case. They were augmented from the heat of the bed; and arrived, on the night of the 29th, when I was roused up by him, to an agony threatening madness. On the succeeding morning, an intelligent surgeon, whose inspection I requested, unhesitatingly pronounced the case arthritic. “There was, however, no arthritic circle; and the subjective
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