A Treatise on some practical points relating to the diseases of the eye / by the late John Cunningham Saunders, to which are added a short account of the author's life, and his method of curing the congenital cataract, by his friend and colleague, J.R. Farre.

  • Saunders, John Cunningham, 1773-1810.
Date:
1821
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Credit: A Treatise on some practical points relating to the diseases of the eye / by the late John Cunningham Saunders, to which are added a short account of the author's life, and his method of curing the congenital cataract, by his friend and colleague, J.R. Farre. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, Emory University.

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    3dly. The force of the heart and arteries is diminished by purgatives. These ex- cellent means are of more general utility in ophthalmia than either of the former. In the most inveterate cases their use is indis- pensable, and must he repeated even after it would be injudicious to enfeeble the pulse to that great degree which may be done either directly by the abstraction of blood, or indirectly by continually nauseating the stomach. But in the milder varieties of ophthalmia, purgatives are of themselves sufficient to cure the disease. Doses of ca- lomel, given exclusively with this view, often subdue at once the incipient stages of the ophthalmia scrophulosa. But in the ad- vanced stages of it, they must be given thalmia. Amongst the formulae kept at that Infirmary, u none was more constantly used by Mr. Saunders at the commepcement of acute ophthalmia, whether of the ex- ternal or internal tunics of the eye, than a simple solu- « tion of tartar emetic, so administered as either to nau- « seate, or to produce full vomiting. His correct reason- ing on the latter effect of this remedy will be found in il his Essay on Inflammation of the Iris, which was first published in the Medical and Physical Journal, in the year 1806.