On conical cornea / by James H. Pickford.

Date:
1844
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Credit: On conical cornea / by James H. Pickford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONICAL CORNEA. There is probably no disease to which the eye is subject, hitherto so rebellious to medicine, so intractable in its nature, and, at the same time, so fatal to vision, as conical cornea; and not one, the pathology and treatment of which are so little un- derstood.* In the following pages, after enumerating a few of the more prominent symptoms of the disease, I shall request the attention of the Association, 1st. To the generally received opinions of the nature of the malady. 2ndly. To the treatment recommended by writers on the subject. 3rdly. To a more successful mode of treatment. 4thly. To an attempt to explain the rationale of such treat- ment, by a reference to the anatomical structure of the part affected, and to the probable pathology of the disease. The attention of the Profession was first directed to conical cornea by Leveille, the French translator of Scarpa on the Dis- eases of the Eye, in a note under the head of Staphyloma. His description of the disease is so exceedingly accurate that I am induced to quote his own words: * We must, 1 believe, confess at last, that we do not understand the pa- thology of conical cornea, that its causes are totally obscure, and that we know no treatment capable of remedying it. I cannot say that I have seen any plan productive of benefit.—A Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye, by W. Lawrence, F.R.S.; page 379. London, 1833. From the result of my practice, I much fear, that conical formed cornea may be ranked with the incurable maladies.—An Essay on Staphyloma pelkicidum
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