A treatise on the principal diseases of the eyes / by Antonio Scarpa ; translated from the Italian, with notes, by James Briggs.

  • Antonio Scarpa
Date:
1806
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Credit: A treatise on the principal diseases of the eyes / by Antonio Scarpa ; translated from the Italian, with notes, by James Briggs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    deed, if in the higheft degree of this difeafe the eye-lids are accidentally attacked with in- flammation, as in the cafe of eryfipelas of the face, the effect of which, as of all other inflam- mations, is to fupprefs every kind of fecretion in the parts affected with it, the accumulation of puriform matter in the fac ceafes altogether, which returns as foon as the inflammation of the palpebral has abated, and the morbid fecre- tion .of their internal membrane, and of the glands of Meibomius, is reproduced. I have frequently afcertained that the fame effect: is produced when an inflammation of «thefe parts is artificially excited, by the introduce tion of any fbrongly-irritating fubftance be- tween the palpebral and the ball of the eye^ as I have alfo conflantly obferved that the purir form difcharge may be radically cured by merely correcting, at an early period, the morbid fecretion of the internal membrane of the palpebrae, and of the febaceous glands fituated along the tarfus, If, however, notwithstanding what has been advanced, fome may yet be inclined to be- lieve that the puriform humour in this difeafe is rather formed by the internal membrane of the fac . than the palpebrae, it may not be impro- per for them to confider, that the internal mem- brane of the lachrymal fac is exadly fimilar to thai which lines the frontal and ethmoidal fmufes, being a very delicate membrane entirely defti- tute
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