A treatise on diseases of the eye : including the doctrines and practice of the most eminent modern surgeons, and particularly those of Professor Beer / by George Frick.

Date:
1826
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    CHAPTER II. INFLAMMATION OF THE CONJUNCTIVA. A. Catarrhal Inflammation of the Eyes.—Con- junctivitis Catarrhalis. The most simple form under which inflamma- tion attacks the conjunctiva, is that of catarrhal ophthalmia, or what has been denominated by some of the English ophthalmologists, the puri- form ophthalmia. The disease commences, most commonly, with a sensation of itching, or burning and stiffness in the borders of the eye-lids. The eye is dry and less moveable in its socket. On ex- amining the conjunctiva, we shall find the redness unequally diffused over its surface, and the vessels running in distinct bundles, or fasciculi across the eye. That the inflammation is seated in the con- junctiva, and not in the sclerotica, is evident from the size of these vessels, from their being more deeply coloured, and from their lying more super- ficially. They swell and subside again more rapidly than those of the sclerotica. In the motions of the eye itself they remain stationary, but when the eye-lids are moved, they are observed to follow. It is this particular enlargement of the conjunc- c 2