A treatise on the diseases of the eye : including the doctrines and practice of the most eminent modern surgeons, and particularly those of Professor Beer / By George Frick.

  • Frick, George, 1793-1870.
Date:
1823
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Credit: A treatise on the diseases of the eye : including the doctrines and practice of the most eminent modern surgeons, and particularly those of Professor Beer / By George Frick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    single leech, than by three or four, on any other part of the eye-lid; and it is a long established and well known maxim in medicine, that the more rapidly blood is drawn in the inflammation of any organ, the more beneficial will be the result. Scarifications of the conjunctiva have a very good effect in diminishing the inflamma- tion; they should only be employed after general and local bleeding, in the manner now mention- ed, have been premised. To produce any de- cided benefit, however, they should be made deep and often, so as to effect a large discharge of blood in the shortest possible time. After the bleeding, recourse should be had to purgatives, and small doses of antimony, given in such a manner, as to keep up a constant state of nausea. They will be found most useful, where the ophthalmia is combined with a de- ranged state of the digestive system. Blisters behind the ears, or to the nape of the neck, where the disease is at all obstinate, should never be neglected. Strong stimulating collyria. as applied by many surgeons at the very commencement, or in the early stage of the inflammation, are always in- jurious; and the best application at this period, are tepid fomentations. Care must be taken