The practice in the Liverpool Ophthalmic Infirmary, for the year 1834 : being the first special report / by Hugh Neill.

  • Neill, Hugh
Date:
1835
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Credit: The practice in the Liverpool Ophthalmic Infirmary, for the year 1834 : being the first special report / by Hugh Neill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Great George-square, 8th of 1st Month, 1834. Dear Friend,—In answer to thy note just received, I have to say that I cannot recollect the precise date when the accident occurred to my son's eye, but believe it was in the spring of 1833. A hard ball was thrown against it by one of his school-fellows. Great pain immediately followed, and loss of sight from the effusion of blood. [Leeches were applied to the temple of the same side, and towards evening of the same day, the form of the pupil, before obliterated, could be seen. The eye was covered with a shade, a little cooling aperient was used, and in two days scarcely a vestige of injury was observable.] With recollection of thy kind and judicious advice, I remain thy obliged friend, Thos. Hancock. IRITIS, AND SYPHILITIC IRITIS. My cases were successfully treated by mercurials; keeping the pupil constantly dilated by the Belladonna, and applying afterwards the Camphorated drop or Vin. Opii. At present I shall say no more upon this interesting- disease. I am delighted to see, by an announcement in one of the French Medical periodicals, that the Symp- tomatology, Diagnosis, Pathology, and Treatment of Iritis, form the subject for the Prize Essay of 1835, for which a gold medal, value 300 francs, will be given by the Royal Society of Paris for the Improvement of the Practice of Medicine.* * Prix propose par la Societe Medico-Pratique de Paris. La Societe Medico-Pratique de Paris propose pour sujet de prix pour 1835, la question suivante: Deer ire V Iritis, etablir ses diverses especesffaire connaitre le traitement. L'importance des maladies des yeux, aujourd'hui mieux etudiees peutetre, les nouveaux efforts que Ton a faits recemment en France pour en eclairer
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