Practical remarks. Part I. On acute and chronic ophthalmia, ulcers of the eye &c. &c. Part II. On remittent fever, viz. simple and complicated / by Thomas O'Halloran.

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1824
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Credit: Practical remarks. Part I. On acute and chronic ophthalmia, ulcers of the eye &c. &c. Part II. On remittent fever, viz. simple and complicated / by Thomas O'Halloran. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFAC E. The writer has treated Ophthalmia in Eng- land, Ireland, France, Spain, America, and the West Indies. He pursued the antiphlogistic plan of treatment for a period of twelve years, with a success far short of what he was taught to expect from depletion in diseases of a purely inflammatory character. He was frequently disappointed, where he had been almost con- fident of success ; and he was particularly cha- grined in two instances, where life was endan- gered from loss of blood, in consequence of aneurismal rupture of the temporal arteries succeeding to abstraction of blood. It was ob- served in these cases, that, as soon as the pa- tients recovered from long continued syncope, the turgidness of the blood-vessels of the eye returned; and the cases were more troublesome, and the cures more protracted, than where blood had been more moderately abstracted. It
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