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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    effect, was rendered decisive by an Hospital assis- ‘tant, who, with more faith than prudence, con- veyed the matter of a gonorrhea to his eyes without any affection of the conjunctiva being’ the consequence. From this time, I was led to look for an explanation of the connexion sub- sistmg between gonorrhea and ophthalmia, aris- ing in the same person, in some peculiarity of the constitution, and to conclude, that the disease is an extension ofan inflammation, which first shewed itself in the urethra, and of which the different structures of the eye are liable to participate, in common with many other parts. Major ———, xtatis 25, — contracted gonor- rhoea in July 1809. In about a fortnight after the appearance of the disease, he was seized with the usual symptoms of hernia humoralis. As these abated, pain and swelling commenced in the right knee, and being at this time under the necessity of travelling in an open carriage for a couple of days, at the end of the journey the pain and swelling had extended to the other knee, to the foot and toes, especially the articula- . tion of the great toe. Suffermg under excru- clating pain, and wholly deprived of the use of his limbs, he came under the care of Sir Henry Halford: but no treatment seemed to possess any power in removing the complaint ; and, in addition, 212
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