Copy 1

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
Catalogue details

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.

    46/178 page 32
    which, as the vascularity advances, is in- cluded in the disease. | The caruncula Jacrymalis, and the fold of the conjunctiva, which comes forward upon the eye, are the first parts after the palpebra, which take on the disease, and are generally the last in which it disap- pears: but the symptom, which above al] others is characteristic of the disease, is the formation of a purulent matter. This takes place as soon as the action which I havedescribed has commenced, and it may be always detected, if the quantity . discharged does not lead to the discovery, by pulling down the inferior palpebra, at the bottom of which more or less will be found to have accumulated. As the early detection of the disease is of much practical consequence to the patient, and his speedy removal from the healthy, a measure which cannot be too strongly recommended, no person interested in treatment, or in the investigation of the disease, will blame the minuteness of this description.
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3