On acute ophthalmia : as it occurred in the left wing of H.M.'s 37th Regiment during 1851-52, whilst stationed at Colombo, in Ceylon / by J.W. Fleming.

  • Fleming, Jim (James William)
Date:
1861
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Credit: On acute ophthalmia : as it occurred in the left wing of H.M.'s 37th Regiment during 1851-52, whilst stationed at Colombo, in Ceylon / by J.W. Fleming. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    which the constitution can alone determine, acted on by what Mr. John Hunter would probably have called the stimulus of necessity, it commences the work of reparation—one or two pencils of fine vessels carrying red blood, shooting from the cir- cumference towards a centre, that centre being the ulcer itself. A mass of pale bluish lymph is seen to fill up the excavation to a level with the healthy cornea. These vessels must on no account be in- terfered with. After a time they become pale, red blood ceases to circulate in them, and they finally disappear. By this time, or soon after, the lymph filling up the ulcer has lost its bluish colour, becoming as transparent as the healthy cornea, and the eye recovers its natural appearance. The frequency of these complications no doubt materially influenced my treatment of the disease. Four years' residence in Ceylon had not acclimatized the regiment in respect of the ophthalmia, nor so affected the European constitution as essentially to alter the character of a complication which many might be disposed to think peculiar to cold, or at least to temperate climates. THE END.
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