Practice of physic ... / with notes ... To which are added, the discoveries made in physic since the time of Dr. Cullen ... Including also the laws of the animal economy, and doctrines of pneumatic medicine. By R.J. Thornton.

  • Cullen, William, 1710-1790
Date:
1816
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    prove useful in any degree in proportion to the evacuation excited. BLISTERING. For relaxing the spasm in the part, and taking off the de- frequently held over the steam of warm water, which alone often cures the mildest cases. With this treatment, the inflammatory stage of the mild acute ophthalmy, commonly ceases in the course of four or five days. The patient no longer complains of that oppressive sense of heat, tension, throbbing, &c. experienced at first, and he can now hear a moderate light, without such an effusion of tears as was previously oc- casioned. In this state, how red soever the tuuica conjunctiva may ap- pear, it is no longer affected with acute inflammation, and the ophthal- my has relapsed, from its acute stage, into that attended with relaxa- tion and weakness of the vessels of the conjunctiva, and membranous lining of the eyelids. Emollients are now improper; in lieu of them, astringent, corroborant collyria should be used, by means of which the relaxed vessels of the conjunctiva and eyelid will recover their original tone, and the ophthalmy be totally removed. One of the following eye- waters, which are similar in quality to those directed by Scarpa, may he employed: R. Zinci Vitriolati, gr. 5. Aquae Rosas, unc. 4. Misce. Or, R. Cerussae Acetat. gr. 8. Aquae Faeniculi, unc. G. Spiritus Vini Camphorati gutt. 10, Misce. The mild ophthalmy, originating from causes which render it an epi- demic, so quickly passes over the first inflammatory stage, that it is scarcely observable, and is, according to Scarpa, the only case in which warm applications prove beneficial.