On inflammation of the membrane of the aqueous humour of the eye / by Alexander Watson, M.D.

  • Watson, Alexander, 1799-1879.
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[1845?]
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    ox (,2.( \ INFLAMMATION V_J OF THE MEMBRANE OF THE AQUEOUS HUMOUR OF THE EYE. By ALEXANDER WATSON, M. D., F. R. C. S. E. Consulting Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, and Surgeon to the Eye Infirmary, &c. &c. Edinburgh. (From the Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, No. 164.) The general characters of the ophthalmice had been observed by the earliest physicians, and by them handed down from gene- ration to generation until our own times, with very few additional observations.* It has therefore been reserved for the nineteenth century to make those nicer and more important specific distinc- tions which characterise the ophthalmic surgery of the present day. And although in this path the German surgeons led the way, yet those in Britain have not been slow in employing their talents and acute observation to extend our knowledge of these diseases, as well as to apply their judgment and skill in giving precision to the treatment of them. To the accounts given concerning those diseases of the eye, which have been so elegantly described and delineated by Dr Wurdrop, in his essays on the Morbid Anatomy of the Eye, pub- lished about thirty years ago, very little has since been added. But some of these diseases have been subdivided into species and varieties; several additional morbid conditions have been describ- ed ; and the treatment of ophthalmic diseases generally, has been * Galenus de loots affectis, iv. Paul of Aegina, Book iii. xxii. The medical works of Paulus Aegineta, trans- lated into English, with a Copious Commentary by Francis Adams, Esq. surgeon. London, 1834, 8vo. Banister, Richard. A Treatise of 113 Diseases of the Eyes and Eyelids. London, 1622, 12mo. Maitre-Jean. Traite des Maladies de I’Oeil et des Remedes propres pour les guerir. Troyes, 1707, 4to. St Yves. Nouveau Traite des Maladies des Yeux. Paris, 1722. Janin. Memoires et Observations anatomiques et physiologiques sur I’Oeil et sur les Maladies qui afFectent cet organe, etc. Paris, 1772. Benedictus, Traug. Gul. Gust, de Morbis Oculi Human! Inflammatoriis. Lipsiae, 1811, 4to.