Ocular therapeutics for physicians and students / by F.W. Max Ohlemann ; translated and edited by Charles A. Oliver.

Ohlemann, F. W. Max.

Date:: 1899

Credit: Ocular therapeutics for physicians and students / by F.W. Max Ohlemann ; translated and edited by Charles A. Oliver. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$which leads to the formation of abscesses in the tissues of the iris, with resultant hypopyon. Gummous or syphiUtic iritis may appear either as a simple or as a condylomatous form of inflamma- tion that is often complicated with chorioido-reti- nitis and depositions into the vitreous humor. Tuberculous iritis is interesting, and by some is said to be characterized by the fact that it may be the earliest expression of tuberculous infection with- out demonstrable existence of tuberculosis in any other part of the body. It presents itself in the form of isolated tubercular nodules (Michel). The treatment of iritis divides itself into causal, general, and local. If the inflammation is specific in type, mercury is indicated; if it is rheumatic in form, salicylate of soda, two grams (gr. xxx) at night, taken, if possible, in hot tea, should be pre- scribed. In such cases, some authorities recommend an emetic, such as the following, during the begin- ning of the treatment: R . Andmonii et potassii tartratis, . o Aquee destillatae, loo Misce et fiat solutio. Signa.—To be used as an emetic. 5 gm. (gr. tV) o CO. (fiiij, f^j, rcix\). In the suppurative or purulent form of the disease, treatment by mercurial inunction, in order to check the extension of the disturbance to the deeper parts of the eye (the chorioid and the ciliary body), is also of value. Fuchs has seen good results in gonorrheal iritis from tlie use of gaultheria in doses of fifteen drops$