Lectures on diseases of the eye / By John Morgan; edited by John F. France.
- John Morgan
- Date:
- 1848
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Lectures on diseases of the eye / By John Morgan; edited by John F. France. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![and the patient will bear general depletion, do not spare the lancet afterwards, nor forget the assistance you may derive from nauseating remedies. We next come to the consequences and treatment of a more advanced stage of Purulent Ophthalmia. Now as it very frequently happens that we are quite pre¬ vented from obtaining sight of the cornea by enormous swelling of the lids and chemosis of the conjunctiva, we are often obliged to form our diagnosis, and frame our plan of treatment, upon general symptoms. If the cornea has sloughed, there can be no necessity for active depletion, as it is utterly impossible to restore the eye to its natural function : our only object wil] then be to relieve local suffering. But, if there be no good reason to believe that the transparent cornea is permanently damaged, no direct evidence in the nature of the discharge that sloughing has taken place, it is right to presume that the case is within the reach of appropriate remedies; and you will be justified in adopting, as in the first stage, the most active and vigorous depletion. If the disease, however, be not checked at an early period, it rarely happens that the organ can be perfectly preserved. Bleeding, therefore, and every other means of lessen¬ ing action, must be had recourse to, whilst there is a reasonable hope of saving the cornea; and the extent of depletion must be regulated, as in the first stage, by its effect, and not by formal rules of practice. In a short time you will be able to separate the lids, and ascertain the condition of the globe : should it then be unequivocally manifest, that the transparency of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29339637_0096.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
