A treatise on diseases of the eye : including the doctrines and practice of the most eminent modern surgeons, and particularly those of Professor Beer / by George Frick.

Date:
1826
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Credit: A treatise on diseases of the eye : including the doctrines and practice of the most eminent modern surgeons, and particularly those of Professor Beer / by George Frick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vered by the eye-lids. The white of the eye is of a bluish-grey or leaden tint, and the conjunctiva, together with the sclerotic coat, is traversed by a number of varicose vessels, containing a dark grumous coloured blood. Sometimes small cir- cumscribed tumours are perceived upon different parts of the sclerotica, caused by the vessels of choroidea having taken on the same varicose dis- position. The swelling in other cases is more diffused, and the sclerotica immediately encircling the cornea presents a sacculated or pouch-like appearance. The cornea is generally opake, some- times staphylomatous; the pupil, if not oblite- rated by previous inflammation, is much dilated and mis-shapen, and presents a dull opacity behind it; the iris is entirely motionless. The disease is, in general, caused by arthritic inflammation of the eye-ball, more especially where this occurs in persons of relaxed habits, and has been for a long time neglected. It is often connected with glaucoma of the lens and vitreous humour. The affection is altogether incurable, and the eye, if irritated by stimulating salves or washes, very frequently assumes a malignant or carcino- matous growth, so as to endanger the life of the patient.