External Eye Inflammations of Doubtful Origin

The Long Fox Lecture: Metastatic Inflammations of the Eye

Clinical Record: A Case of Pulmonary Consolidation of Doubtful Origin

a few days after arrival. She developed fever and a bad cough with a considerable amount of sputum. A diagnosis of bronchitis was made. However, the cough persisted for four weeks, and she lost a great deal of weight. A skiagram was then taken. This is reproduced, and shows the upper zone of the right lung occupied by an ill-defined opacity, with numerous small translucent areas. Moreover, ther...

Indigenous practices among Palestinians for healing eye diseases and inflammations.

This paper briefly describes the state health services in general, and eye care in particular for Palestinian Arabs under the British Mandate (1917-1948). The paper will also discuss the environmental and cultural origins of the prevalence of eye diseases among Palestinian Arabs. The second part of the research describes in detail indigenous practices of traditional medicine for healing trachom...

The origin of eye hospitals.

T he word ‘‘eye’’ has its origin in Anglo-Saxon, probably from the Baltic languages, with the Fresian ‘‘oie’’ the closest precursor. In middle English it is variously spelt as ighe, eghe, eighe, and eie. It is not surprising that there is a town of Eye in Suffolk, and that eye hospitals are an AngloSaxon phenomenon. Their origin in the early part of the 19th century had been preceded by the rec...

Chronic Inflammations of Lymphatic Glands in Rangoon

The above is not difficult to understand when it is remembered how frequent and progressive tubercle of the lungs is in Rangoon, and how futile any treatment (including the open air treatment) is in its arrest. Excluding the evidently tubercular cases, a majority of other enlarged chronically inflamed lymphatic glands remains. They appear to be of syphilitic origin. While plenty of stress is la...