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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    stitution; more commonly, however, it is con- nected with other characteristic marks of the disease, as thick upper lip, widely expanded nos- trils, swollen abdomen, a loose spongy texture of the fibre throughout the body, &c. The following are its chief characteristics. The eye-lids, particularly the upper, are much swollen and red, generally half closed, more especially if the eye be directed towards the light. The patient can no longer move them, and any effort of the surgeon made to separate them causes the muscles of the face to be thrown into violent action. If the patient be an adult, and can exert sufficient resolution to open his eyes, it will be observed, that he depresses at the same time the lower jaw. He seeks out the darkest recesses of his room, and is never easy, except when removed from the light. If a child, he buries his eyes in the pillow of his bed, or in the lap of his mother, to screen them from the ordinary light of day. A quantity of acrid, pungent tears are con- stantly distilling from the half separated eye-lids, which falling over the cheek, produce an uneasy sensation of scalding and itching, and cause the patient to be continually rubbing his eyes. Sometimes the lacrymal sac and canals are also 3