Practical observations on the principal diseases of the eyes: illustrated with cases / Translated from the Italian ... with notes, by James Briggs.

  • Antonio Scarpa
Date:
1806
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    and of the LH 508 contra&ed, asinaftate of health. On the 17th the patient left the hofpital perfectly cured. -+ The ancients have very highly commended, in the treatment of this difeafe, fumigations of | fhecp's liver roafted, conveyed to the eyes by. | means of a funnel, as well as the eating of the liver thus prepared. This remedy, even at the 7 prefent time is general] y accredited, not only on the affertions of the vulgar, but alfo of profef- fional perfons ; and fome writers add, that it fucceeds in a furprifing manner among the Chinefe, where this difeafe is faid to be very frequent. I cannot relate any cafe of my own in.confirmation of this; in the boy before men- , tioned, it appeared to me to be of no advan- tage. If, however, the effiacy of this remedy 1s a matter of fact, we may boat of having | another means of curing the zocfurnal blindne/s,* befides that which I have delivered. | f Celfus, * It was an old foldier who imparted to his comrades the remedy which I am about to defcribe, when there was fo large. a number affected with nocturnal blindnefs at Strafbourg in 1762. The foldiers cook a ‘lice of ox’s liver, weighing about half a pound, in an earthen pot newly varnithed, and juft large enough to hold four pints of water. When the. liver is done, fo as to be fit to eat, and the vapour is of a fup- | portable heat, they place the pot upon the bed,’ and inclining the head very near it, they throw overa covering fo as exaGtly to enclofe them. They remain there until the liver ceafes to produce any vapour, or the difficulty of breathing obliges the patient to come out. One application only, is, in general, KK 4 fufficient