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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    I RHEUMATIC OPHTHALMIA. 59 worse at night, when the patient is covered warmly in bed; and very often one or more of the joints are affected at the same time. Sometimes, gene- ral rheumatism or pains in the limbs have pre- ceded the inflammation in the eye, which are mi- tigated, or cease entirely as soon as the disease is once firmly established in the latter organ. With the first sensation of pain in the eye, there will he found more or less redness of the sclero- tica, epiphora, and intolerance of light. The red- ness is to be distinguished from that which takes place, when the conjunctiva is the seat of inflam- mation, from its being of a lively carmine or rose colour, from its being diffused over the whole sclerotica, and from its being more deeply situ- ated h There is a constant weeping of the eye, more particularly when it is subjected to sudden vicissitudes of temperature, or exposed to a damp and cold atmosphere. Hence this variety of oph- thalmia has been termed by the older nosologists, the ophthalmia humida. These symptoms, if not controlled by art, are every day increased. The redness of the eye be- comes greater, extending itself to the vessels of the conjunctiva, which may be seen of a florid red colour, and covering the more delicate rose- like capillaries of the sclerotica. The pain is ren- ‘ There is no pale line of interval between the edge of the cor- nea and the zone of sclerotic vessels, where the sclerotitis is acute. Editor.