Observations on the cataract, and gutta serena : including a translation of Wenzel's treatise on the cataract : a new chapter on the operation of largely puncturing the capsule of the crystalline humour : and many additional remarks on the gutta serena / by James Ware.

  • Ware, James, 1756-1815.
Date:
1812
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Credit: Observations on the cataract, and gutta serena : including a translation of Wenzel's treatise on the cataract : a new chapter on the operation of largely puncturing the capsule of the crystalline humour : and many additional remarks on the gutta serena / by James Ware. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    CASE VII.8 A lady of a very delicate constitution, about thirty years of age, was attacked, in November, 1791, with a violent pain in her head, attended with an uncommon sensation of weight in the back part of it. The pain, which was supposed at first to be rheumatic, varied much in degree at different times, and sometimes, for short pe- tory, and has found it of distinguished use in many disor- ders both of the eye and ear. He recommends to mix it with sugar, and in the proportion of one part of the former with three of the latter. In order to be more exact in the use of this remedy, I have lately accustomed myself to pre- scribe one grain of the turbith mineral to be mixed with twenty grains of powder of liquorice, of snuff, or sugar; and one fourth part of this powder to be snuffed up the nose once or twice in the course of the day. And in those cases where the nose has been particularly dry, I have rendered the powder more effectual, by directing the patient to in- hale the steam of warm water through the nose previous to the use of the snuff. 8 The following case occurred since the time that the preceding part of the paper was read before the Medical Society. 5 riods,