A thesis on the cataract : with some remarks on the eye / by Arthur B. Stout.
- Arthur B. Stout
- Date:
- 1837
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Credit: A thesis on the cataract : with some remarks on the eye / by Arthur B. Stout. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![torn exist. The indication of treatment is to prevent the occur- rence of inflammation ; and not to subdue it when it has once commenced. All the parts wounded in the operation by depres- sion are subject to subsequent inflammation, but its most frequent seat is the iris. If disease in these cases be not checked by energetic management, it proceeds to a destructive extent. Severe iritis, together with external ophthalmia, may be con- joined with amaurosis or glaucoma, giving rise to niuch suffer- ing, and perhaps the loss of the eye. If, then, at the first exami- nation any pain be present in the head, or eye, or any evidence of commencing inflammation be detected, blood should immediately be taken from the arm. If the symptoms be very trivial, the application of cups to the temple, together with an active ca- thartic will suffice. When, however, they manifest any sever- ity, venesection should at once be resorted to. With this, anti- monial solution; or magnes : sulph: with antimon : tartr : may be prescribed, as the case may require. The following formula possesses great power in reducing acute external inflammation of the eye, as of the conjunctiva and cornea. Yjc. Magnes : Sulph: § ii. Antimon: Tartr : gr. iii. Aq: Purae § xvi. M. Of this §ii may be taken every hour until an emetic and cathartic effect are produced. It should be then discontinued ; and be repeated the first or second day afterwards as occasion may demand. With this, fomentation of the eye with warm water, or the lot: opii should be conjoined. This remedy is much less effectual in iritic inflammation, or any form of in. ternal ophthalmia. In very severe iritis it is necessary to obtain the constitu- tional effects of mercury in the most speedy manner. For this purpose the combination of calomel and pulv: antimon: fy. Calomel: gr. ii. Pulv: Antimon: gr. iii. M. Fit in pi].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21206326_0061.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
