High-frequency current in ophthalmic practice / by L. Webster Fox.

  • Fox, L. Webster (Lawrence Webster), 1853-1931.
Date:
[1907]
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    about thirty-eight years of age, who had a family history of cancer running through one or two generations. She came to me about a year ago with three nodules in the upper eye- lid, the smallest being the size of a pea, another twice that size. They were more or less painful and had caused inflammation in the conjunctiva and in the eye itself. I did not want to risk the x-ray, not feeling sure of the effect upon the vision. I gave her a number of treatments with the constant current and then varied, using the high-frequency with the spiral or vacuum tube. A few treatments made a perfect cure of the hardened masses in the upper lid. I saw the case five or six months ago and it was then free from disease in the eyelid. Dr. G. Oram Ring, Philadelphia: I have had practically no experience in the application of the high-frequency current, but I would like to ask the President if I understood him to say that his little daughter was hypermetropic and astigmatic ? Dr. Ring (continuing) : I understood Dr. Snow to say that he proposed by treating his daughter twice a week to do away with glasses. In hypermetropia alone this would be difficult to do by the substitution of electrical treatment for glasses. The President (answering Dr. Ring) : She was not astig- matic. Dr. J. D. Gibson, Denver : I am glad to hear that Dr. Coover's work has spread so far in its influence and that it is leaving its impress in the Medico-Chirurgical College. Dr. Coover has been accomplishing a good deal with high-frequency currents and the x-ray in Denver and has aroused much enthusiasm among the specialists there in this work. From the history of high-frequency currents I would expect the best results in granular lids by the direct local applica- tion, which would give both the general and local effect. I believe there is a special electrode made for treating under the lids. Dr. Fox (closes) : In answer to Dr. Schauffler I would say that i have not tried the various lights. I have one of Dr. Schauffler's lamps and we did try it for the hypnotic effect, not from the therapeutic standpoint. We have been trying to extend this field to see what we can accomplish with the high-frequency current, and as Dr. Gibson has suggested. Dr. Coover was one of the men who created this enthusiasm within myself. I thought that if we could stimulate the retina to come back within the normal range we would gain much. If there is anything to be obtained from electricity in the general field of ophthalmology we would like to find it out. In granular Uds, we believe the grattage opera- tion is better than the application of the high-frequency cur- rent to the everted lid in that it saves time. If the high- frequency current will make an amblyopic eye useful we desire to use it.