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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    ( 964 ) to the constitution, very naturally excited in me parti- cular interest, and disposed me to make an active use of the opportunity afforded me of attending to every circum- stance relative to it, and of judging for myself. Diligent inquiry into the previous treatment of the pa- tients received at the depot, great numbers of them being. quite blind, and into the means employed in the different regiments in which the disease had appeared, soon ¢on- vinced me that none of them were effectual in checking the disease, and preventing it from going on to purulency and disorganization of the eye. But, by the treatment pursued at Selsey, I found that we had the disease, if taken in its first stage, completely at command, that we could effectvally check it, and prevent its further progress. The result, then, of my experience, with respect to the efficacy of this treatment in arresting the progress of the Gisease, is briefly this—that in the first stage (i.e. before purulency or disorganization has taken place) it is most complete; but, if not employed until after the purulent stage has commenced, it is only, though very powerfully, palliative. The degree of certainty to be attached to its operation, 1 think so great, that 1 am inclined to doubt whether, in any case, the treatment, if properly pursued, would fail of success. There may, however, be cases wherein it would; and if there are, from what I have seen, I should expect to find them in strumous habits, and where there had long been slow inflammation of some part of the organ.
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