Observations relative to the treatment by Sir William Adams, of the ophthalmic cases of the Army / [John Vetch].

  • Vetch, John, 1783-1835.
Date:
1818
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Credit: Observations relative to the treatment by Sir William Adams, of the ophthalmic cases of the Army / [John Vetch]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    its early stage, has been confined to its appear¬ ance at the Military Asylum, where the age or the sex of the patients, prevented it ever acquir¬ ing the excessive violence which it assumed in the army. Sir William insists particularly on the dis¬ tinction betwixt violent vomiting, kept up for eight or ten hours, by emetic tartar, which he proposes, and a constant degree of nausea, which was one of the means of cure, commonly tried by others. The difference may readily be admitted; but I am able to assert, that if far more efficacious means than either, are not had recourse to, in the genuine form of the disease, the termination will add to the number of those who have already fallen victims to its ravages, and will soon prove, that innovation may be tried at loo great a fisque, No person can, with less justice th in myself, be accused of a rash and indiscriminate recourse to the lancet; and I wholly disclaim the abuse of this efficient remedy, as described by Sir Wm. Adams. The rules which I was enabled to lay down, to guide the employment of general depletion, and the aids I derived from powerful and local treatment, are open to examination, and on an early occa¬ sion will be strictly detailed.