A manual of the diseases of the eye, or, treatise on ophthalmology / revised and enlarged by H. Houston.

  • Littell, S (Squier), 1803-1886.
Date:
1840
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Credit: A manual of the diseases of the eye, or, treatise on ophthalmology / revised and enlarged by H. Houston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    of gentle stimuli, as the nitrate of silver, the sulphate of copper or zinc, the diluted vinum opii, and the red pre- cipitate, or citrine ointment; together with due attention to the state of the bowels, and the improvement of the general health. Rhubarb with magnesia or the bi-car- bonate of soda, the sulphate of quinine, and the carbonate of iron, will frequently prove serviceable in the strumous constitutions in which it so often appears. [When it depends upon a morbid state of the lach- rymal gland, it may be treated by the application of leeches above the brow, by blisters, or the use of the following collyria in slight eases:— Liq. plumbi acet., 5ss.; aquae rosae, 5vj.; hquor. opii sedat., 5ss. Misce, ^ Liq. alum, com., Ph. Lond, 5ij.; aquae rosae, Sviij.; solut. acet. morphiae, mxx. Misce.—Ryan.] The local remedies above mentioned will be found equally useful in many cases of stiUicidium. APhen the puncta are unduly contracted, an attempt may be made to restore the natural size of the apertures by artificial dilatation. (See page 32.) An opposite condition, known under the appellation of oceromay or dryness of the eye, has been noticed as a symptom in chronic enlargement of the lachrymal gland, and will hereafter be seen accompanying the incipient stages of several diseases, ophthalmia, amaurosis, &c. It may arise also, from partial obliteration of the excretory ducts, and sometimes occurs as a nervous, or sympathetic phenomenon. The secretion from the conjunctiva takes place as usual, the surface of the membrane is clear and moist, and altogether unchanged in appearance; but the