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An account of the ophthalmia which has appeared in England since the return of the British Army from Egypt / By John Vetch.

  • John Vetch
Date:
1807
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of the ophthalmia which has appeared in England since the return of the British Army from Egypt / By John Vetch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Q2 the old, thus adding a fresh stimulus te the inflammation already existing. If any other proof could be wanted in addition to the actual experience of the agerava- tion of the disease from this cause, the severe relapses occasioned by the adoption of the same operation, for the removal of opacities of the cornea, before the dispo- sition to the disease had entirely subsided, will place the impropriety of the practice beyond dispute. Scarifications made in- the palpebree, or in the conjunctiva, co- vering the eye, after the tumefaction had taken place, in order to evacuate the ef- fusion, where they were not productive of actual mischief, werenot attended with any beneficial effects. -Of the remedy which I have next to mention, and which from its general im- portance, should have had a prier consi- deration, I cannot help speaking with less confidence. In every author whom] have consulted on this disease, whether ancient or modern, purgatives have been recom- mended asa remedy superior almost to every other. In warm climates, ‘evacua-
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