The commoner diseases of the eye : how to detect and how to treat them / by Casey A. Wood and Thomas A. Woodruff.

Casey Albert Wood

Date:: 1908

Credit: The commoner diseases of the eye : how to detect and how to treat them / by Casey A. Wood and Thomas A. Woodruff. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$operating chair such as dentists use, but every valuable purpose is generally served by the em- ployment of the- ordinary surgeon's table—es- pecially when a general anesthetic is given. A crescentic piece may be cut out of the table, cor- responding to the right side of the patient's chest when he is in the prone position. The body of the operator occupies this semilunar space, and he is thus enabled (especially if he is not ambidextrous) to face his patient and manip- ulate his instruments to greater advantage. • 1 Anesthetics. The great majority of Ophthal- mic operations can be performed under local an- esthesia. Iridectorny made during an attack of glaucoma, when the eye is congested, enucleation and its substitutes, operations on the lids and most operations on children require a general an- esthetic. Whether ether, chloroform, ethyl bro- mid, nitrous oxid or a combination of two or more of these is Used will depend upon the views of the anesthetist. Chloroform for children, ether for adults is a good general rule] ; »* f The authors prefer for local anesthesia the fol- lowing mixtureV •' ; «• ' \ ?<> %;'<5«' 'v':--)n * ... ' ■ r' ■•' ■ Holocain hydrochlorate . .. .... .gr. 5 ! ' Cocain hydrochlorate ..... .. V. .gr. t; v Distilled water; ; . . . . Aa . if In operations on the globe likely ib b& tic'c&M- panied? I Iby: bleeding \suprarenalin . pr \adifentilin, i'm000/ is -used; to insure a temporary -anemia$