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Klein, Hieronymus · 1583

For this reason, once the cause is removed, it is easily resolved. It is called ταραξις disturbance by the Greeks and Conturbatio by Avicenna.
XVI.
True ophthalmia is that which is excited not by an external and evident cause, but by an internal one, namely by humors flowing down to the conjunctiva of the eye. Therefore, it is also more difficult to resolve.
XVII.
If there is very great inflammation and violent pain, such that both eyelids are inverted due to the severe inflammation and the eye cannot be covered, it is called χύμωσις chemosis.
XVIII.
It differs from Epiphora excessive watering of the eye in that in the latter, only the eyelid margin reddens, whereas in the former, the white of the eye reddens.
XIX.
The procatartic predisposing causes of true ophthalmia are the six non-natural things a traditional medical concept covering diet, air, exercise, etc.: which, because they are known from the account of the patient and those standing by, we supersede recounting at length.
XX.
The antecedent causes are in triple distinction. For either the adnate itself is distended because of a fullness aggravating the entire body, or it is violently eroded by the acrimony of flowing humors, or finally, it is raised into a tumor by thick and flatulent spirits.
XXI.
The συνεχὴς conjunct/proximate cause is any humor filling the space, or effectively eroding by its acrimony, or thick and flatulent spirit actively distending it.
XXII.
Since the diagnostic signs of these afflictions are exposed to everyone's eyes and are easily known from the report of the patient and bystanders, we shall omit them and append certain prognostics.
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