Manual of ophthalmic surgery and medicine / by Walter H. H. Jessop.

  • Jessop, Walter H.
Date:
1898
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Credit: Manual of ophthalmic surgery and medicine / by Walter H. H. Jessop. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    way is to use homatropine and cocaine applied twice at intervals of ten minutes. It is most important that the tension of every eye should be estimated before the pupil is dilated by a mydriatic. There are two chief methods of ophthalmoscopic examination. 1. The direct, by means of the ophthalmo scope alone. 2. The indirect, by the ophthalmoscope Fig. 7. The Dhiect Distant Examination with the Ophthalmoscope supplemented by the objective lens held in the other hand. 1. The direct method may be employed in two ways : The distant with a large concave mirror of 10-iuch focus, and the close with, preferably, a small tilted mirror of short focus. The direct distant ophthalmoscopic examina- tion.—The light should be above and a httle behind the patient's head, so that the face is thrown into shadow.