Medical, chirurgical and anatomical cases and observations / Translated from the German original by George Wirgman [With preface by P. Shaw and introduction by D. Cox].

Heister, Lorenz, 1683-1758

Date:: 1755

Credit: Medical, chirurgical and anatomical cases and observations / Translated from the German original by George Wirgman [With preface by P. Shaw and introduction by D. Cox]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$\ t had a violent inflammation of the fame eye in the fummer, with a de- fluxion of fliarp humours from it j and as now a more violent inflamma¬ tion was returned, he was very apprehenfive of bad confequences, and fent for me to his country-feat. I ordered him, December i6, 1721, to be bled in the foot immediately, and the next day to repeat veneledlion in the jugular vein, and to take twenty pilulas polychreftae, to drink nothing but water, and obferve a proper diet; and dired;ed him to wafli his eyes with the following collyrium : Aq. flor. fambuc. — euphr'af. aa 3ii. Spirit, vini Gallic, ^fs. Sacchar. faturni, gr. v. Camphorae, gr. iv. m. I directed a tea-fpoonful of the following powder, to be taken every three hours, in elder-flower-water : I^. Pulv. temperant. gi. -camphoras, 5fs. m. And to infufe the following ingredients, like tea, to be drank every morning and afternoon : ]^. Herb, euphraf. mj. -betonicas, mfs. Raf. ligni faflafras, gfs m. December 18, I had him cupped upon the back and flioulders, and, going to reft, applied a blifter to his back. December 19, the inflammation* was but little abated, and the blood- veflels in the canthi being very turgid, I bled him in the eye, after the following manner : I pafled a particular crooked needle under the blood- veflels, and raifed them up, and divided them in the great canthus with a pair of fciflars, in the fmall canthus with a fmall lancet, fuffered the eyes to bleed, and dabbed and waftied them with a foft fpunge, foaked in a decodion of hyilop, warm, and thus fomented the eyes. I direded him to continue the powder, tea, and collyrium. The patient found much relief, the pain and heat being greatly mitigated. December 20, he took twenty pilulae polychreftae, and perfifted in the life of the other medicines as before ; the blifter was kept open, and his left-eye grew much better. Odober 24, he repeated the pills, and took the fame medicines, except- .-ing that the powder with the camphire grewdifagreeable to him,whichthere¬ fore he took but every fix hours ; he continued this regimen till January i, ' 1722,$