This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1806 Excerpt: ...on an excess, the other on a defeft of tone. The FEVERS. Besides these two epidemics, this station equally subject to fevers as other warm climates: and here they assume chiefly a remittent or intermittent The former affefts the bulb of the eye j the latter, sometimes the tarsus, sometimes the tunica conjunctiva, "In the beginning I purge in all the three species, without distin&ion, with an ounce of magnesia vitriolata, otherwise called Epsom salts. "The sthenic ophthalmia requires very close and stri6t attention, inasmuch as the cure depends on the efficiency of the first remedies. In this case, a blister to the nape of the neck, and local bleeding from the temporal or jugular vein, are of great utility, and ought not to be omitted. An hour after the letting of blood, a sensible change in the complaint is perceived, and next day the violent pain of the part and the severe headach diminish, or at least cease to torture the patient. This effefit is often retarded, and the complaint advances, accompanied with a slight feverishness. In order to stop this, it it necessary to repeat the bleeding and the purges. "A low diet is prescribed, a decoflion of barley with cream of tartar, and a resolving collyrium, composed of opium dissolved in spirit of wine, and in decodlion of saffron, which contributes to calm. "This method of cure should be continued till the swelling of the eyes is diminished, and the eye-lids begin to be turned up with a degree of swelling, an appearance which always proceeds from the weakening and relaxation of the vessels. In consequence of this change a saponaceous collyrium is Ordered, mittent form. They are frequently very fatal. Their appearances do not differ from those of the hilious remittent fevers of tr...