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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    in a state of indirect debility^ (to borrow an ex- pression from ihe system of Brown) from the un- due action of light and heat through the day, is more predisposed to its attacks, than any of the other textures or organs of the body. TREATMENT. Much difference of opinion prevails among the English and Continental surgeons, with respect to the treatment of this species of ophthalmia. While the former have recourse to the most co- pious venaesection, aided by the strictest antiphlo- gistic means, the latter rely chiefly for the cure of this disease upon mild astringent applications to the eye, and the most gentle laxatives. It was a common practice among the English army sur- geons in Egypt, to bleed ad deliquium on the first attack of inflammation; and it was not unusual, in this manner, to draw from sixty to seventy ounces of blood, before they could produce the desired effect. However efficacious such practice may be, when pursued with the hardy peasant, or robust soldier, it is very certain it can never be adopted with the sickly artizan, or the more luxurious inhabitant of the city; and a common bleeding of fourteen or sixteen ounces, rapidly performed, will prove infinitely preferable. This may be repeated according to the urgency of the symptoms, or the violence of the pain. In addi- tion to the general bleeding, it is always advisable