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

  • Bell Taylor
Date:
1888
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    fluor albiis, such as most women suffer fi-om sometime or other during their lives, and that which follows the insertion of a particle of gonorrhoeal matter into the conjunctival sac ; indeed in the latter case it is almost impossible to save the eye. Speaking on this point, Professor Arlt, of Vienna, says :— I have lost many eyes from gonorrhoeal ophthalmia. Mark that, Gentlemen ! Professor Arlt is one of the most accomplished practitioners in Europe, and perhaps the most experienced; and if he, with all appliances and means to boot, cannot save the eye in a majority of these cases, it is clear that we have to do with a disease of exceptional virulence. Fortunately, how- ever, in this affection only one eye is infected (unless when the patient has bathed his eyes with his own urine), and we can always guarantee the sight by protecting the sound eye with the shield to which I have already called your attention; and here let me beg of you to apply it on suspicion. This simple shade cannot, under any circumstances, do any harm; sight is not interfered with ; ventilation is perfect; the patient is not pre- vented from helping himself or walking about; and its neglect is often attended with most disastrous consequences. Above all, let me beg of you not to believe the youths and young men, the most frequent subjects of this affection, when they tell you they are free from venereal taint; for I have known even highly educated gentlemen deny the soft impeachment, when a moment's examination has sufficed to reveal the origin of the disease. We had a sad example of the results attending the neglect of the shield, in the case of a poor woman from Gran- tham, who was here three months ago. Her right eye—(it is generally the right eye)—was inoculated from some linen she had to wash, and discharged freely for three weeks; at the end of that time, sad to relate, some of the matter got into the left
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