Atlas of the external diseases of the eye : including a brief treatise on the pathology and treatment / by O. Haab ; Authorized translation from the German, edited by G.E. de Schweinitz.

  • Haab O. (Otto), 1850-1931.
Date:
1899
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    formation of synechite difficult. In simple iritis, showing mere punctate opacities, one to two drops of a 1 per cent, solution are usually sufficient; in acute iritis five to eight drops per day, with, if necessary, the same dose of a 2 per cent, solution of cocain. Absolute rest for the eyes and abstinence from alcohol in any form should be strictly enforced in acute iritis. Sv])hilitic iritis demands vigorous antispecific treatment in the form of inunctions, 2 to 4 gm. per day, and potas- sium iodid, 2 to 5 gm. per day. In obstinate cases a course of sweating is recommended, which, with sodium salicylate internally, is also aj)plicable to the rheumatic form. Tubercular iritis can only be treated by general consti- tutional medication; excision of the nodules is not of much avail. On the other hand, I have seen good results in several instances follow the introduction of sterilized iodoform into the anterior chamber. In traumatic iritis prophylaxis plays an important part. The strictest asepsis is to be observed in all operations within the eyeball; infected wounds should be sterilized as well as possible with carbolic acid, with the thermo- cautery, or in any other appropriate way. For this pur- pose iodoform may be again recommended ; I once saw, in the case of a suppurating cataract-wound, an apj)arently hopeless eye saved by the introduction of iodoform into the wound and into the anterior chamber. Cold com- presses, so popular among the laity, are to bo absolutely forbidden in all wounds of the eyeball, on account of their great liability to infection. [The Editor has the greatest confidence in sterilized ice compresses in non- infected wounds of the eyeball. Naturally great care is exercised that the compresses themselves shall not carry infection.] If the wound is already infected, cold com- presses, as well as leeches, are as useless as would be the “ singing of hymns at a fire ” (Hirschberg). Most important is the proj)hvlaxis of so dangerous a disease as sympathetic iritis, ddierefore, all injuries likely