OPHTHALMY. 
far enough. It is in the com 
that a very large quantity of blood fhould be taken away : 
almoft an infallible remedy. It is n 
away twenty or thirty ounces of blood. B 
often taken away fixty, at the fame time enjoining perfect 
reft, the avoidance of all animal food, and putting in prac- 
tice every other part of the antiphlogiftic treatment. The 
complaint is naturally difpofed to relapfe, and as often 
effet of its application. 
cludes, that dropping fubftances into the eye is not fervice- 
able, and fays, that, fince this practice was relinquifhed, 
the eye-lids have not been fo often inverted. The bowels 
muft be kept open. Benefit has often been derived from 
fhaving the head, and keeping it continually wet with water, 
or vinegar. Blifters are alfo fometimes indicated; but the 
great reliance is to be put in the ftri@teft antiphlogiftic regi- 
men, and copious venefection. See Edinb. Med. and Sur. 
Journal, for January, 1807. 
With regard to the caufes of the epidemic purulent oph- 
thalmy, Mr. feems to think, that the complaint is 
moftly communicated by conta€t. Some of the worft cafes 
of the purulent ophthalmy of children have happened in 
of the w 
have occurred in thofe, who, either fhortly before the at- 
tack of the ophthalmy, or, at time, labeure 
either under .a gonorrhoea, or a gleet. Mr does not 
mean to impute every purulent ophthalmy to fuch a caufe ; 
but in the majority of adults whom he has feen affected, 
if the diforder had not been produced by the application o 
morbid matter from a difeafed eye, it could be traced to a 
conneGtion between the ophthalmy and difeafe of the ure- 
t Other caufes, Mr. Ware acknowledges, may contri- 
bute to aggravate, and, perhaps, produce the diforder, and 
the purulent ophthalmy in Egypt has been attributed to 
a great number. The combined influence of heat and 
& 3 and in this country, (con- 
tinues Mr. Ware,) the diforder prevailed during, the laft 
as great a degree, and upon as great a number 
within a {mali diftri& of lefs than a mile, as it 
as the action of the 
y twenty 
Hence, Mr. Ware cenfures the indifcriminate ufe of thofe 
articles in {chools, nurferies, hofpitals, fhips, and barracks. 
amma 
rally with a tumefaction of the conjunctiva, 
the 
are, p. 23. 
plan of wea 
rom the arm, as practife 
of places, as very painful, and 
lancet never need be 
an the point of the lancet. 
od, Mr. Ware fays, a large blifter on the 
Ancdynes fhould be given, 
with e¢cafional purgatives, and an antiphlogiftic regimen. 
Ware on Purulent Ophthalmy, 1808, p. 26, &c. 
Dr. Vetch, on the fubje& of local applications in the 
reient difcafc, advifes keeping the eyes continually co- 
vered with liner, dipt in fome cooling Istion. In the firtt 
ftage, he gives the preference to dropping the aqua fapphirina 
into the eye; afterwards, when the {welling of the eye-lids 
8 » he prefers the aqua litharg. acet. While 
the patient is fubject to a recurrence of pain, he thinks the 
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