On the relations between the dental lesions and diseases of the eye / by Henry Power.

  • Meneses, Henry Power
Date:
[1894]
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Credit: On the relations between the dental lesions and diseases of the eye / by Henry Power. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tion, and Frick, who, in 1826, speaking of the causes of*strabismus, remarks that it is often concomitant with difficult dentition; whilst Welbank, who translated Frick's book, in a note on the treatment of amaurosis, states that he has obtained good results from the employment of carbonate of iron in cases of amaurosis proceeding from disease of the dental nerves. After this peiiod, difficult dentition and dental disease are often mentioned incidentally amongst other causes of ophthalmic disease. I presume that you will all accept as a fact, that which is admitted by all ophthalmic surgeons, that there is such an affection as reflex or sympathetic ophthalmia, that is to say, that irritation of one set of branches of the fifth will affect those of the opposite side; yet in discussing the subject before us it seems to me in the first place important that I should very briefly put before you the evidence showing that reflex irritation of the eye really occurs. If any ophthalmic surgeon be asked why he believes in reflex irritation of the globe and its appendages, his mind at once reverts to many cases in which injury to one eye, especially of the ciliary- region, has been followed, after a period of very variable duration, by inflammation of the uninjured eye of a low but steadily progressive type, generally involving all the tissues, and leading to more or less serious impairment, or even to complete loss, of vision. c 2
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