OPH 
this o- has feen the complaint, in a few inftances, un- 
= er the form of an acute ophthalmy, refifting all the com- 
eee of treatment, but yielding immediately to a 
courte or mercury. 
Accordin r. Pearfon, the venereal ophthalmy re- 
fembles in its aopetane: fuch difeafes cf the tarfi and con- 
junctiva as are derived from {crofu'a ; and, in his belief, there 
are no fpecific chara€ters by which difeates of the eye or eye- 
f the venereal virus, can be 
other spn 
note, p. 1 
nt Sram work of Mr. oe tol dara in- 
reeeiet | of the iris is flated to differ from inflam 
much dimini a an cbfeured 5 fe {clerotica is tumid 
and uneven on furfac much head-ache pre- 
vails. Saunders’s “atic g on fone aa Points relating 
to Difeafes of the Eye, &c. p. ae 
Mercurial friction, a Sar ae ie decoct. farfaparille 
et mezerei, are recomme nde A few dro s ofa colly- 
veely. n one cafe he nen pene grains a day for a fort- 
night ; and in another, two grains were ordered to be taken 
every five hours, with n of opi The fame 
h half 
diftinguifhed oculift alfo fometimes took blood from the 
temporal arteries. 
The Mee whi ch we are a indebted for the 
s Anfangfgrunde der 
1, Ware on Ophthal- 
Alf on the Epidemic Puru- 
my: 3. ‘Cone: Dictionary of Pradtical 
; Firtt Lines of the Practice of 
di 
a eae and 3. k 
mys 
Surgery, edit. 3., 
Points acne to Dife afes of the Eyes and Scarpa’s Of- 
fervaz. fulle Principali Malattie degli Occhi, capo 7. 
In the foregoing article, the reader may have expected a 
few remarks on common contufions of the eye; but the na- 
ture and treatment of thefe cafes are fo familiarly known to 
every body in the prefent flourifhing condition of the art of 
pogilifm, that we confider ita ah uperfluous to fay any 
thing here moft fuccefsful plan of 
the dit cienien aticading what 
moniz acetatis, or common vinegar. be wet 
with either of thefe applications, and kepe conftantly upon 
the bruife, care being taken to dip the rag frequently in the 
lotion, fo that it may always be wet and cool. Befides this 
OPI 
common mears, it will be proper in pene cafes to purgethe 
patient, and even to ufe leeches, and praétife venefection. 
P , OPIATUM, in seeila is fometimes applied 
o any confeétion or electuar 
In which fenfe it is defined ; an internal remedy, varioufly 
compofed of powders, pulps liquors, fugar, or honey, re- 
duced into a foft confiftence. 
The opiate of Salonen was formerly a compofition of 
great fame, fo called from one Solomon, a phyfician, its in- 
ventor; and firft publifhed by Lawrence Joubert 
ere is a particular kind of opiates, called incarnatives, 
or the teeth and of alum, ai lignum 
tion is preci re fleep. 
n which fenfe the word is of the fame import with zar- 
ae hypnotic, fo, porifics or r pacific. 
” pofition wherein 
oan is an ingredient. See Ori 
OPIE, Joun, in Biography, our ee aig of paint- 
ing in the Royal Academy, was born in May, 1761, at St. 
Agnes, in oe a village about feven miles diftant from 
the town of Truro. is father was a mafter carpenter, and 
principally engaged in fupplying the mines in that neigh- 
bourhood with fuch cea ions of timber as they required, 
either for working or for fupport. 
ew men have attained to eminence by a more rai See 
courfe of ftudy, by ee native kaha or by m 
determined indultry, than Opie. as very eae 
for the ftrength of “hie underftanding, aa the rapidity with 
whic c — all the learning that a aes age {chool could 
en ten years old, he was not only able to 
ice ical difficult problems in Each but was thought 
capable of inftructing others: and w e had fearcely 
reached his twelfth year, he eftablithed ar an evening {chool in 
St. Agnes, and taught writing and arithmetic ; reckoning 
among his pupils {ome who were already twice hisa 
is father was very folicitous to bring him up in his own 
bufinefs, and to this end bound him sdulnee G seg 
ut the drudgery of a laborious employment was by n 
means fuitable to one whofe mind had attained fome es 
of {cience, and ftill more of art. tenth year he 
had practifed drawing, and even painting, in a Hee way ; and 
. every opportunity, which his confined fituation afforded, 
of contemplating prints and pictures ; though without any 
fyftem or intestion of purfuing the art profeffionally. So 
ardent was he in the love of it, that he is faid to have ne- 
gleéted his labour, ee in houfes where any pifture ins 
his cent and, in fome inftances, carried away fo m 
of the works he faw in his remembrance, as to have ae 
tolerable g00d imitations of them at home. 
s father, who ftrenuoufly endeavoured to con 
toa hie celiation. ave way to his determined peers. 
ad already veuhibited the fuperior endowments of his 
ed. and hung his father’s houfe with portraits of his family 
and friends, when by accident he became acquainted with 
Dr. Wolcot, then refiding at Truro, and fince fo celebrated 
under the title of ho Pindar ; who having himfelf a tate 
for drawing, and ong perception of character, faw the 
worth of our artift, a was well fitted to afford him inftruc- 
tion in many vequifite points. 
atron was proud of his pupil, and affifted and re- 
commended him fo effe&tuaily, that he commenced profeffed 
portrait painter, and went about to the neighbouring towns 
with letters of introduétion to the principal families refident 
in them, and becca entirely fupported himfelf by his 
own exertions, 
Ae 
