On the cure of cataract, with a practical summary of the best modes of operating, (Contintental and British).

  • Neill, Hugh
Date:
1848
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Credit: On the cure of cataract, with a practical summary of the best modes of operating, (Contintental and British). Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    Management bility of the eye have disappeared, the cicatrix may be rendered clear and small by touching it with laudanum, and subsequently using a weak solution of pierre DIVINE. [a] Andoftheiids The eye-lids should be carefully cleansed every day, to remove the secretions of the wound and of the Meibomian Glands. Precautions: Sometimes, violent inflammation demanding antiphlo- witb practice. or gistic treatment, follows the operation. To prevent this, it is advantageous—if the patient be not too feeble— to bleed him immediately after the operation, and to apply cold fomentations to the eye, throughout the first two days. Occasionally, the superficial part of the cica- trix re-opens, attended by rupture of the cornea: at other times the wound completely re-opens, when it should be touched lightly with laudanum, and agglutinative band- ages put on as at first. ^ou°ddoea The wound may not cicatrize at all. This happens either from a want of sufficient vitality in rare cases, or from the edge of the lower lid getting between the lips of the wound. In the first set of cases, touch the wound with laudanum. [b] In the second set, the edges of the [a] Pierre Divine (lapis divinus) arena? liquefactis, adde Camphor. On appelle ainsi une substance trit. 3y dont Saint-Yves indique ainsi la Mixt. et refrigerat. mas9am serva. preparation: S. Lapis Divinus. R Vitriol, de Cypro, Nitri, [b] Laudanum, being a spirituous Aluminis ad.. ..lbj solution, is an irritating application Cont. et pulv. in vase vitreo. cal. under any circumstances to the not heal: