Diseases and injuries of the eye : their medical and surgical treatment / by George Lawson.
- George Lawson
- Date:
- 1880
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Diseases and injuries of the eye : their medical and surgical treatment / by George Lawson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![are apt to excite considerable irritation. In chronic .oplithalmia counter-irritation will be freqnentl)^ found beneficial; a small blister of emplast. cantbaridis, or a 'piece of Brown's blistering tissue of tbe size of a sbilling, may be applied to tbe temple, or behind the ear, and repeated in two or three nights if necessary. If the remedies named fail to afford relief, a seton in the temple of a single or double thread of thick corded silk will occasionally do good. The seton should not be allowed to remain more than three or four weeks, or the irlceration at the entrance and exit of the thread may cause an un- sightl}' scar. In cases of persistent chronic ophthalmia the lids shoidd be everted aud carefully examined for granulations, as, if the conjunctiva has become granular, the ophthalmia will continue until the granulations are cured. (See G-rakulaii Lids.) Pustular Ophthalmia is amild form of inflammation of the conjunctiva, characterised by the formation of small elevations about one or two lines from the margin of the cornea. They are generally of a reddish colour at their base, and of a yellowish white on their somewhat flattened summits. They have been called pustules, but they do not really contain pus: if pricked, only a little watery fluid will exude from them. The conjunctiva in their vicinity is more or less reddened, and sometimes one or two small red vessels may be seen coursing towards them. There may be only one of these so-called pustules, or there may be as many as three or four of them. There is no intolerance of light, and the patient seldom complains of more than a feeling of grittiness in the eye. One pecu- liarity of pustular' ophthalmia is that it is very apt to recur. This afiection is quite distinct from the true ]jhlyctenular ophthalmia described in the chapter on Diseases or the Corkea. Treatment.—Atieniion must be paid to the general health of the patient, and, if necessary, a mild aperient prescribed. As a local application, any mild stmiulant will do good. 1. A little calomel dusted into the eye on to the pustules with a camel's hair brush every or every other day for a few times will be found a very efficient remedy. It has also the credit of preventing a recurrence of the disease. 2. A portion of the unguent, hydrarg. oxid. flav. (F. 128), the size of a mUlet seed placed on the inner surface of the lower eyelid with the end of a probe once a](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20403264_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
