A practical treatise on the diseases of the eye / [John Vetch].

  • John Vetch
Date:
1820
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Credit: A practical treatise on the diseases of the eye / [John Vetch]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hind the cornea in purulent ophthalmia; it is only when combined with sclerotic inflammation that — this event can ever occur. In the second place, when matter collects in the anterior chamber, pro- ceeding from an ulcer of the cornea, which does sometimes though rarely happen, constituting hypopion, such collection is of no consequence whatever with respect to the treatment to be pursued. When the ulcer from which the mat- ter is derived is made to heal, and either ceases to secrete matter, or when the matter secreted no longer finds its. way into the anterior chamber by the commencement of the healing process, the portion already there is absorbed with a rapidity much greater than what takes in any other part equally subject to demonstration. An hypopion occupy- ing.the whole lower half of the cornea, I have seen absorbed in twenty-four hours after the ulcer had commenced healing. Purulent ulceration of the cornea is itself a very rare occurrence, as I have already had occasion to state. ad Important as the symptoms of this malady un- doubtedly are to the individual who has had the misfortune to contract it, the convalescent stage of the disorder, which we are now to consider is one of still greater moment to society at large. If 1 experience any recompense in reflection for the trouble I have taken with the disease, it arises less from the success attending the treatment of
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