Treatment of the diseases of the eye, by means of prussic acid vapour, and other medicinal agents / [Alexander Turnbull].

  • Turnbull, Alexander, 1794 or 1795-1881.
Date:
1848
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Credit: Treatment of the diseases of the eye, by means of prussic acid vapour, and other medicinal agents / [Alexander Turnbull]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    63 chamber, and the cornea, to external appear¬ ance, much more bulged forward than that of i. the right. With this eye she could only dis¬ tinguish an object when it was rolled downward and toward the inner canthus, on being passed between her and the light. u This ill-fated woman being altogether an object of charity, her friends solicited me to take up her case, of which I was not at all san¬ guine. However, having previously perused, with much pleasure, a brief extract by Dr. Turnbull, on the fumes of prussic acid as a valu¬ able remedy in certain diseases of the eye, I was led to make trial of a few applications of it in the above case, according to his method ; and I must candidly confess, that ere long I was com¬ pletely astonished on observing the rapid effect it produced on the opaque cornea before men¬ tioned ; more so, as the longer I cautiously and perseveringly used it, the greater in proportion did the inspissated lymph become absorbed, and the layers of the cornea, over a wide space,