Lectures on diseases of the eye / by Charles Bell Taylor.

  • Bell Taylor
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1888
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    shield, which I regard with parental and I trust with pardon- able pride, since I am sure that I have saved many an eye by its use.* Gentlemen, I said the disease was easily cured, and so it is. Let me quote a little evidence on this point. Mr., afterwards Sir William Lawrence, late sui'geon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, whose work I have here, and I can cite no higher authority, writing in 1833, says:— There is a singular contrast between the virulence of this inflammation of the eyes of newly born children, and the serious consequences to which that inflammation so rapidly leads, and the readiness with which it yields to suitable treatment; hence if we see a case of purulent ophthalmia before any injury is done to the cornea, we may assure the parents, and it gives us great pleasure to be able to do so, that sight will not suffer. Even the most violent form is very manageable and will do well when properly treated.! Again, Professor Knapp, of New York, another eminent oph- thalmologist, whose archives I here commend to your notice, tells us, haH a century later, That no child need lose its eyes from ophthalmia neonati, and no child does if faithfully treated, adding, I speak from an experience, not of dozens, not of hundreds, but of thousands of cases. | You will find a similar expression of opinion in the excellent brochure entitled The Prevention of Ophthalmia Neonatorum and its Eavages, by Dr. David McKeown, of Manchester, presented to the Obstetrical Society of London, in * Tte Shield is merely a piece of stiddng plaister with a hole in the centre, cut to correspond with the pupil, the aperture is fiUed by a piece of gauze. The baby depicted above, whose left eye was attacked with a virulent form of purulent ophthalmia three days after birth, had its right eye protected in this way upwards of a fortnight. t Lawrence on Diseases of the Eye, p. 171. X Archives of Ophthalmology, for March, 1882—Putnam & Sons, New York.
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