A copy of the appendix and notes, annexed to the third edition of Remarks on the ophthalmy, psorophthalmy, and purulent eye / By James Ware.

  • James Ware
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1795
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Credit: A copy of the appendix and notes, annexed to the third edition of Remarks on the ophthalmy, psorophthalmy, and purulent eye / By James Ware. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    On the bejl mode of applying the Thebaic Tincture. If two or three drops of the Thebaic Tindlure ar© dropped at once on the globe of the eye, the pain they oc- cafion will be confiderably greater than if they are placed in the inner angle of the eyelids, and made to glide gradually 6n the eye, by gently drawing down the lower lid. At the fame time that this latter mode of applying the tin&ure is much lefs painful than the former, I have found, in a great Variety of cafes, that it is equally beneficial. Note 9, Page 51. On the ejjicacy of the Fotus Capitum Papaverum^ either alone, or mixed with brandy, in pain- ful and relaxed cafes of the Ophthalmy. It ought to be remarked, however, that when the Opfu thalmy is accompanied with a violent pain either in ths head, or eye, a ftrong deco&ion of poppy heads, applied as a fomentation, has fometimes been joined with great advan¬ tage to the ufe of the Thebaic Tindiure, and of the other remedies that are above recommended. If the habit b« much relaxed, a fourth part, a third, or even a half, of brandy, or of fpirit of wine, may be added to the fomenta- tion ; and after the pain has been fomewhat abated, com- preffes, wet with a mixture of equal parts of brandy, verjuice,, and water, and fometimes of brandy alone, bound on the eyes during the night, have produced very effential fervice* In a few inftances alfo, where there has appeared to be a C 3 confiderabl©
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