Lectures on the operative surgery of the eye : being the substance of that part of the author's course of lectures on the principles and practice of surgery which relates to the diseases of that organ ... / by G.J. Guthrie.

  • Guthrie, G. J. (George James), 1785-1856.
Date:
1823
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    Diagnosis of Musca volitantes. Their nature, 209. Are never fixed, 209. Causes, 210. Principal diagnostic sign is their mobility, 211. Mode of demonstrating the existence of the liquor Morgagni, 211. Incurable, 212. Diagnosis between incipient and confirmed Amaurosis and Cataract. The spots are fixed, 212. A part of an object only seen, 212. Flashes of light, appearance of brilliant colours, 212. Cornea at first scarcely altered, 213. Appearances of the iris, 213. Of the cloudiness or opacity, 213. General symptoms, 213. Diagnosis between Glaucoma and Cataract. Symptoms of glaucoma, 214. Sufficiently diagnostic, 215. An elongation of the pupil considered an important diagnostic sign of glaucoma in Germany, but is not so in Great Britain, 215. Ob- servations on the German theory of arthritic inflammation, 216. Critical remarks on inflammation of the iris and of the choroid, 218. On the Causes of Cataract. Age an occasional cause, 219. Beer enumerates many very dispu- table causes, 220. Professor Walther's opinions relative to in- flammation, 221. Delpech, 223. Syphilitic inflammation a cause of cataract, 225. Observations on the cure of incipient cataract from inflammation, 226. On the Classification of Cataract. Two classes; the true, and the false or spurious cataracts, 227. The first class contains three genera, 227. Complicated cataracts, 227. The first genus, or of lenticular cataracts, contains four species: the hard, the fluid, the soft, the caseous, 228. On the Diagnosis of hard Cataract. Mode of examination, 228. Use of the belladonna, 229. Nomen- clature of the Germans in relation to the motions of the iris, 229. Appearances of the opacity, 230. Colour of a hard cataract, 231. Hard cataract generally small, 231. On the Diagnosis of capsular Cataract. Arises in all probability from an action of a peculiar kind, 231. Ap- pearances of the opacity, 232. Anterior capsular cataract, 233. Posterior capsular cataract, 233. Opinions of Beer and Mr. Tra- vers, 234. Complete capsular cataract, 234. Secondary capsular cataract, 235.