Cases of irido-choroiditis, treated by division of the ciliary muscle : with remarks on the relative value of this operation and iridectomy / by Henry Power.

  • Power, H. (Henry), 1829-1911.
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[1864]
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Credit: Cases of irido-choroiditis, treated by division of the ciliary muscle : with remarks on the relative value of this operation and iridectomy / by Henry Power. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    happy effects are intelligible upon this principle alone, and that in considering' them as both fulfilling this indication, Mr. Hancock’s operation is by very far the most simple and harmless, 1 must express myself very strongly in its favour, and were I unfortunately the subject of glaucoma, I should unhesitatingly submit myself to that operation in preference to iridectomy, on the grounds of its being far less dangerous in its performance, equally intelligible in its mode of action, and, so far as my experience has gone, quite as satisfactory in its results. Evidence against the Internal Use of Mercury in Syphilis and other Diseases. By CHARLES DRYSDALE, M.D., F.R.C.S. Eng., M.R.C.P. Bond., Honorary Secretary to the Harveian Society, and Physician to the Farringclon Dispensary. J £ It may assist us not a little/in attempting to discuss a question of such intricacy as that of the administration of a confessedly dangerous drug, which is/supposed to act ns an antiphlogistic in some diseases, and as an antidote in btliers, if we clearly recognise at the out^t the difficulties we shall have to encounter in proving it to possess either of these properties. These difficulties dveJ inherent in the .experimental Or empi- rical method of conducting therapeutical inquiries, and are so insuperable as ip render almost /all the results of such inquiries nearly valueless. We are no loss to cainprehend the rationale of] administering a purge, such as Epsom salts or rhubarb, in disease, because we know well that, these sub- stances have the effect of purging human beings when in health. We use chloroform and opium on the same theory, experiments having been made;upon .individuals in health. Such chugs, with a few others, and with external applications added, constitute the great body of our true acquisitions in the department of chug therapeutics; but, when we come to the so-calleq specific or antidotal action of chugs, the diffi- culty of judging of results becomes enormous ; and it is not from any Want of labour on the part of past medical observers that we nbw possess so few specifics, but simply because of the enormous difficulty of the inquiry. Perhaps quinine in ague is the only undoubted specific we possess^after all that has been said as to the powers of iodine in scrofula, sarza and mercury in syphilis, and recently of saracenia in small-pox, and hypophosphites in consumption. Mr; J. S. Mill, in Ins “ Logic ” volume 1, in a chapter on the method of experiment, shows how little we can expect horn