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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    and partly spasmodic, attacking the muscles, - the fascize, and tendons, to suffer from the rheumatic inflammation of the large joints, de- scribed under the name of acute rheumatism. Yet each of these complaints, and especially the acute inflammation of the joints, presents us with the most frequent instances of the sudden trans- lation of the local disease from one. part to another, without the one disease ever reciprocat- ing with the other. Acute rheumatism goes sud- denly from one joint to another, and often re- turns again to the one first affected ; but still it is’ a disease of the joints. The. familiarity which I early contracted. with the symptoms of purulent ophthalmia, as in- troduced by the army from Egypt, or of more doubtful origin, made me sensible of the deviation ’ of any case from the regular and characteristic ap- pearance of that complaint. My attention was occasionally excited to cases, which, although of a strongly marked purulent inflammation, yet dif- fered essentially, both in symptoms and termina- tion, from the disease which I was so extensively engaged in treating. Being able, in some of them, to discover either the actual presence, or the recent existence of gonorrhcea, I satisfied myself for — some time with the common belief that this disease was the effect of the matter conveyed from the urethra to the eye. a1
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