So potent is the last agency that we dread a recurrence of ophthalmia so long as dentition is incomplete, and hope for immunity if the animal completes its dentition without any permanent structural change in the eye.
The causes of internal ophthalmia are largely those of the external form only, acting with greater intensity or on a more susceptible eye.
In internal ophthalmia the opacity of the cornea may be confined to a zone around the outer margin of the cornea, and even this may be a bluish haze rather than a deep, fleecy white.
In treating external ophthalmia the first object is the removal of the cause.
The treatment of internal ophthalmia should embrace, first, the removal of all existing causes or sources of aggravation of the disease, which need not be repeated here.
Locally the astringent lotions advised for external ophthalmiamay be resorted to, especially when the superficial inflammation is well marked.
Perhaps the most marked feature of internal ophthalmia is the extreme and painful sensitiveness to light.
Hence, an active bone spavin or ringbone, causing lameness, is more objectionable than that in which the inflammation and lameness have both passed, and an active ophthalmia is more to be feared than even an old cataract.
In periodic ophthalmia in horses the iris loses its lustre and becomes a rusty-brown color.
The periods between these acute attacks of ophthalmia may vary from a few weeks to several months.
Describe the symptoms of infectious ophthalmia of ruminants and the treatment.
In California, the birth certificate asks these questions: "Was a prophylactic for ophthalmia neonatorum used?
I resolved to know more about this eye disease with the very long name, ophthalmia neonatorum, to learn its cause, and see just how it might have been prevented.
The social evil is largely responsible for the infections of which ophthalmia neonatorum is only one result, but since this disease comes so often from a cause which is not generally discussed, it is particularly hard to combat.
While ophthalmia neonatorum is often the result of the social evil, the introduction of other pus-producing germs into the eyes at birth is responsible for a large number of cases.
It is a common belief that ophthalmia neonatorum is an indication that one or both of the infant's parents have led unclean lives, and so, until recently, it has been difficult to have all such cases reported.
Infant ophthalmia is found among all classes, but more especially among the poor, who must so often depend upon the services of a midwife or neighbor who, in most instances, does not know the meaning of the word antiseptic.
Sulphate of zinc is invaluable as an eyewash: for ophthalmia is a scourge in parts of North and South Africa, in Australia, and in many other countries.
Fevers of all kinds, diarrhoea, and rheumatism, are the plagues that most afflict travellers; ophthalmia often threatens them.
Panophthalmitis and sympathetic ophthalmia have both been known to follow it.
The operation is especially suitable for anterior staphyloma following ophthalmia neonatorum.
The reason for this was that these injuries were so frequently followed by sympathetic ophthalmia owing to prolapse of the iris and ciliary body.
It may not only destroy the sight of the eye on which the operation has been performed, but may set up sympathetic ophthalmia in the other eye.
To assert, or even to imply, that it is superior to the well-tried and efficacious Credé method of treatment for ophthalmia in the new-born is cruelly wicked.
If the sore eyes are severe send for a physician as it may be the beginning of ophthalmia neonatorum.
In strumous constitutions specks of the cornea are often accompanied with ulceration of the edges of the palpebræ, and destruction of the ciliæ—the ophthalmia tarsi.
A singular result sometimes follows the purulentophthalmia of infants.
In general the ophthalmia is external; but in severe cases the internal parts become affected, and the eye is sometimes lost by giving way of the cornea.
A frequent cause of purulent ophthalmia in children is imprudent exposure of the eyes to strong light, the parent or nurse not remembering that the organ must be gradually accustomed to the stimulus.
Illustration] Staphyloma has been already alluded to as an occasional consequence of purulent ophthalmia in children.
The above symptoms subside along with the inflammation; but, if this has been at all severe or protracted, distension of the vessels to a considerable degree continues, and the ophthalmia becomes chronic.
In Purulent Ophthalmia of Children, antiphlogistic means must be pursued, if the patient is seen during the first stage of the disease; but children do not bear depletion well.
In Rheumatic Ophthalmiathe appearances of the diseased eye are similar to those in ophthalmia produced by any other cause.
The symptoms and appearances of ophthalmia vary much according to the particular texture or textures affected.
Illustration] Children are not unfrequently the victims of purulent ophthalmia—the ophthalmia neonatorum.
Internal ophthalmia is often occasioned by wounds inflicted either accidentally or by operation.
All he could conclude was that it was not ophthalmia or trachoma.
There's a good deal of ophthalmia or trachoma floating around some native districts.
Deprive us of these pursuits, which the surrender of Flushing effectually did, and Walcheren, with its ophthalmia and its agues, was no longer a place for a gentleman.
Ophthalmia in the dog presents us with symptoms altogether different.
This species of ophthalmia is best subdued by the application of emollient poultices, depletion, purgation and cooling washes.
In some affections of the eyelids, as ophthalmia tarsi and chronic ophthalmia, it did good; but such cases often get well with very little treatment.
I have seen one or two cases of recent conjunctival ophthalmia treated by the application of this Lykion, with speedy relief and cure.
It is sometimes prescribed by European practitioners; and I have heard that it was found very efficacious by Mr. M^cDowell in the ophthalmia of soldiers who had returned from the expedition to Egypt.
Another most important application of the Lykion is when the ophthalmia is accompanied with severe pain.
Then it was that ophthalmia first showed itself amongst the wretched occupants of the hold, the lids of their eyes becoming red and inflamed.
The diffusion into the atmosphere of the purulent discharge accompanying this form of ophthalmia is undoubtedly the means by which the disease is spread.
In scrofulous excoriations, and in the chronic ophthalmia of scrofulous subjects, arising from a relaxed state of the tissues and vessels.
The common causes of ordinary or conjunctival ophthalmia are the sudden exposure of the organ to a cold easterly wind, to dust, gritty particles, or to any external irritation or injury.
About thirty years ago a curious discovery in connection with purulent ophthalmia was made by Dr Loffler, a Prussian army surgeon.
The treatment of mild cases of conjunctival ophthalmia is extremely simple.
In excoriations, and the variety of chronic ophthalmia popularly termed 'blear eye.
In the ophthalmia of scrofulous and syphylitic habits.
Astringent and anodyne; in painful ophthalmia and extreme irritability.
A notable fact demonstrating the propagation of purulentophthalmia by material particles was the circumstance that the first amongst the crew who was seized was a sailor who guarded the hatch communicating with the hold.
The following narrative of an outbreak of purulent ophthalmia that occurred on board a vessel freighted with slaves for the West Indies forcibly illustrates the character and infectious nature of this disease.
The after effects of the various forms of contagious ophthalmia are thickening and distortion of the eyelids, more or less serious defect of vision, and not unfrequently total blindness.
Purulent ophthalmia is also by no means uncommon amongst the non-military population, such as the poorer classes and their children, and the children in workhouses, asylums, and pauper schools.
In ophthalmia and opacity of the cornea, either alone or combined with a little citrine ointment; as a friction or dressing for scrofulous indurations and sores; in rheumatism, stiff joints, and in several skin diseases.
During a voyage to Dominica malignant ophthalmia broke out among the slave cargo, and Rushton caught the disease by attending them in the hold when all others refused help.
The ophthalmia of infancy is an infectious germ disease.
Unlike ophthalmia of new-born children, it is difficult to cure, and a total separation of the diseased from the healthy children should be effected.
It is Ophthalmia Neonatorum, or infantile sore eyes.
Yet, to the best of my knowledge, the Board has not received one inquiry in regard to the enforcement of this law, except from the Committee on the Prevention of Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
This is true to a certain extent, in so far as it produces attacks of purulent ophthalmia which are often serious; but these attacks, like those provoked experimentally in animals, can be cured in a few days when properly treated.
The Egyptian race is chronically weak-eyed, the effect of the damp hot climate of the valley, where ophthalmia prevailed even during the pre-Pharaohnic days.
Gonorrheal ophthalmia may also occur in adults by conveying pus from the urethra to the eyes by the fingers.
Nevertheless, simple ophthalmia occasionally will appear when nothing can be detected to affect the stomach; probably owing to large dogs chasing through brush-wood, or those of the smaller breeds hunting through long grass.
For to cure one person of a disease does not cure another, nor is one any better, when suffering from ophthalmia or fever, by seeing another anointed or poulticed.
And it is on this account that we maintain that ophthalmia is a lesser evil than madness, and gout than frenzy.
But if you will still do wickedly: both you and your king shall perish together.
But Anna went not up: for she said to her husband: I will not go till the child be weaned, and till I may carry him, that he may appear before the Lord, and may abide always there.
