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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    existence of Sir W. Adams; though I did not then, nor do I at this moment, consider the eversion of the eyelid to be generally necessary to the cure of the disease, its frequent repetition has appeared to me not only unnecessary but pre- judicial ; and I have met with more success by simply raising it with the thumb of the left hand, so as to admit the application of a small porte crayon armed with the blue stone or nitrate of silver, than I ever did by the complete eversion of the palpebre ; nor will I yield the evidence of my own sense and experience on this point, to any conjectural reasoning whatever. The treatment of this affection forms but one feature of a disease, which at the time that I met with it, was new to the profession in this country, and although the practice. proved successful to the utmost pos- sible degree, it has been condemned without inquiry and without appeal, and in a quarter where professional discussion cannot be enter- tained. The whole power of high and official patronage’ has been employed to ensure the success of the operation for removing the granulation of the © palpebree by the knife; the failures have been concealed by every possible subterfuge ; nature, however, has proved her superiority, and it is now generally known that the operation, while it has been highly injurious in some cases, has _ only proved successful when aided by those ap-.
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