A treatise on the diseases of the eye : including the doctrines and practice of the most eminent modern surgeons, and particularly those of Professor Beer / By George Frick.

  • Frick, George, 1793-1870.
Date:
1823
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Credit: A treatise on the diseases of the eye : including the doctrines and practice of the most eminent modern surgeons, and particularly those of Professor Beer / By George Frick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    It is most frequently accompanied too by dis- order of the other mucous membranes. It is most common in the lower class of persons; in the children of such as are badly nourished; in individuals exposed to animal effluvia, &c* No class of persons, however, are entirely exempt from its attack, and we find it in all ages and sexes. Professor Schmidt supposes such persons are more particularly liable to attacks of this disease, who have very red vermillion cheeks, with a fine parchment-like skin.f The disease is known at times to reign ende- mically in whole families, schools, &c. and this has given rise to a very general opinion among the English surgeons of its being contagious. Like other diseases of the mucous membranes, this disease is found to exist epidemically in towns or through large districts of country, de- pending no doubt upon certain inexplicable changes in the constitution of the atmosphere. Sometimes it is found to prevail at the same time with an epidemic influenza; and it is very * A variety of this ophthalmia, called in France la mite, is very common among nightmen, which M. Dupuytren attributes to the action of the hydro-sulphuret of ammonia. t Ophthalmologische Bibliothek. Band III. St. 1. Hano- ver, 1805.