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

  • Ohlemann, F. W. Max.
Date:
1899
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    two-gram (gr. xxx) doses are also useful. Later, atropine once daily, and the Heurteloup leech every four or six days, should be employed (Schmidt- Rimpler). Nothing can be expected from these remedies in chronic cases. Michel considers them valueless. In his opinion, ophthalmologists fre- quently find it difficult to relinquish antiquated ther- apeutic measures in this disease, and consider it essential that the patient should be treated in dark rooms. Experience in practice does not favor this assertion. The author, however, knows of patients with extensive chorioiditis who invariably are blinded by bright daylight, and are forced to wear dark coquilles. In ambulatory cases, corrosive sublimate pills should be given internally in small doses (formula 36). Near-work should be suspended. Iodide of potassium and, in cases of anemia, iodide of iron should be prescribed. If venesection is to be per- forined in cases of congestion of the head, the pa- tient should remain for at least a day in a darkened room. In Russia,' great success has been claimed for corrosive sublimate injections, especially in the syphilitic forms, the amount used being one to three thousand strengths for some three to ten times, Hirschberg^ has seen good results from the injec tions made after the method of Abadie-Darier, 1 Centralblatt für praktische Augenheilkunde, 1894, S. 58. Peunow. ^ Ibidem, 1893, p. 267.