The principles and practice of surgery: embracing minor and operative surgery : with a bibliographical index of American surgical writers from the year 1783 to 1860 : arranged for the use of students (Volume 2) . bance, this consisting in febrile reaction, with digestive and circulatory derangements Occasionally, instead of the simple affection just described, more markedsymptoms occur, and the condition is presented which is designated as Puru-ient Conjunctivitis. In this variety an increase of the secretion of the partIS first noticed; then there is a tendency in this secretion to become whi
The principles and practice of surgery: embracing minor and operative surgery : with a bibliographical index of American surgical writers from the year 1783 to 1860 : arranged for the use of students (Volume 2) . bance, this consisting in febrile reaction, with digestive and circulatory derangements Occasionally, instead of the simple affection just described, more markedsymptoms occur, and the condition is presented which is designated as Puru-ient Conjunctivitis. In this variety an increase of the secretion of the partIS first noticed; then there is a tendency in this secretion to become whitethick, and opaque at first, afterward yellow and purulent, and finally thinacrid, and irritating ; greenish in color, and presenting characters of ichor •or It may resemble sanies, the pink color being produced by the rupture ofIT^^A riu^ superficial , and the escape of the coloring matter of theblood. This thin, acrid, irritating pus, running down over the face, is apt toproduce more or less excoriation or eczema of the cheek. In a short timea fullness and swelling of the lid are noticed, which increase frequently tosuch an extent as to result in closure of the eye, in addition to which there. DlAQRAM TO SHOW THE CHARACTERISTIC OF Co.\ji;.NCTiviTis A\D SCLEROTITIS.—1. Vas-cularity of conjutictivitis. 2. Straight vessels of scle-rotitis. (After Wharton Jones.) CONJUNCTIVITIS. 95 may be a protrusion of the folds of the mucous membrane ; or this protrusionmay take pUice before the swelling of the lids has gone on to such an extentas to close the eye, thus producing a true ectropion. The disease continu-ing, the inflammation may be extended from the conjunctiva to the submu-cous areolar tissue, which is found between that membrane and the scleroticcoat, and the effusions of serum or of lymph thence resulting may elevate theconjunctiva to such an extent that the cornea appears deeply sunken in theeye, thus producing the condition designated as C
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