Observations on the efficacy of turpentine in the venereal and other deep seated inflammation of the eye : with some remarks on the influence of that medicine on the system ; accompanied by cases / by Hugh Carmichael.

  • Carmichael, Hugh, active 1829.
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1829
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Credit: Observations on the efficacy of turpentine in the venereal and other deep seated inflammation of the eye : with some remarks on the influence of that medicine on the system ; accompanied by cases / by Hugh Carmichael. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    common to it and Iritis, as it proceeds from other causes. In Syphylitic Iritis, the imflammation of the sclerotic is described as of a dusky brick colour, the injected vessels being more numerous as they approach the cornea, and terminating at a short distance from it, so as to form a zone round that membrane, but without encroaching on it, becoming less so towards the back part of the eye, so that the sclerotic here presents little inflammation. The conjunctiva is but sparingly engaged, a few scattered vessels shewing them- selves here and there, easily distinguished from those of the sclerotic by their loose appearance, and the facility with which they may be made to move over the latter membrane, while those that belong to it remain fixed, or sometimes the conjunctiva is entirely free from inflamma- tion. On the anterior surface of the Iris or bor- ders of the pupil, at more advanced periods, one or more circular globules of lymph, and of a brownish colour, are to be seen, apparently firm in their nature, or they may occur in both these situations. The previous state of the patient's health, and the presence or absence of symp- toms admitted to be Venerea], may also be taken into account in determining its nature j but with regard to the appearances of the eye itself, the foregoing are those which are said to
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