A guide to the diseases of the eye, and their treatment : for the use of students and young practitioners / by F.A. von Moschzisker.

  • Moschzisker, F. A. von (Franz Adolph)
Date:
1856
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Credit: A guide to the diseases of the eye, and their treatment : for the use of students and young practitioners / by F.A. von Moschzisker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I rarely use them. Setons and blisters on the temples are, from what I have seen, decidedly injurious. No class of disease displays more conspicuously and unequivocally the good effects of judicious treatment, than strumous ophthalmia, and on this very ground I would bespeak your attention to its practical study. SECTION IV. PURULENT OPHTHALMIA—BLEPHAR0-BLENN0RRH03A—OPII- THALMO-BLENNORHCEA OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM. Tins disease,- which is a very quick and destructive inflammation, makes its attack on children at the third, sixth, eighth, fourteenth day, or even later; sometimes it is observed immediately after birth. The inflammation commences with aversion to light, with slight redness of the conjunctiva palpebrarum, particularly at the inner canthus, and with an itching of the eve-lids, which are covered with glutinous mucus.which hardens and glues the eye-lids together. If they are O] rs trickle from the eye. At the same time the palpebral conjunctiva is more or less affected with swelling, which is at first soft, somewhat elastic, smooth, and h! lily. The aversion t.> light and the secretion of mucus are now greater; the mucus acquiresa triform appear- ance, becomes thick* r and yellowish. The swelling of the palpebral i a, particularly of the upper eye- lid, as well as the redness, increases, paid gives to it the appearance of a finely injected stomach. Also, the epider- mis of the upper eye-lid acquires a redness, which, when * The ophthalmia purulenta, oculus purulentus of Ware. 4*