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.

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1826
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    these contain nothing but a yellow serum; others are filled with a more purulent-like fluid. Both kinds are often dissipated by proper management; most commonly they burst, and discharging their contents, leave behind them small superficial ul- cers. These vesicles, which are probably nothing more than the inflamed mucous glands of the con~ junctiva, are very analogous to the aphthae which are so frequently met with in the cavity of the mouth, on the lips, tongue, and other mucous membranes of the body. Professor Himly remarks, at a time when aphthae of the throat were very frequent at Brunswick, he also found many ve- sicles, . beginning with an inflammation of the sclerotic coat; sometimes the cornea was similarly affected The catarrhal ophthalmia is a disease very com- mon in strumous habits, and is generally attended with a disordered state of the general health. It is most frequently accompanied too by disorder of the other mucous membranes. It is most com- mon in the lower class of persons ; in the children of such as are badly nourished; in individuals exposed to animal effluvia, &c f. No class of per- sons, however, is entirely exempt from its attack, and we find it in all ages and sexes. Professor Schmidt supposes such persons are more particu- * See Loder''s Journal, vol. i. t A variety of this ophthalmia, called in France la mite, is very common among nightmen, which M. Dupnytren attributes to the action of the hydro-sulphuret of ammonia.