The general practitioner's guide to diseases and injuries of the eye and eyelids / by Louis H. Tosswill.

  • Tosswill, Louis H.
Date:
1884
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Credit: The general practitioner's guide to diseases and injuries of the eye and eyelids / by Louis H. Tosswill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    be prescribed, either alone or in conjunction with tonics, as may be deemed best. Treatment of Sloughing and Crescentic Ulcers.— In ordinary cases the treatment must be the same as for ulcers generally, remembering, how- ever, the especial importance in these cases of supporting the patient's strength by food, stimu- lants, and tonics ; of the latter, quinine is one of the best. When the case is complicated with iritis or hypopyon, iodide of potash with bark will often prove of service. Hot fomentations and a pressure bandage are amongst the most useful remedies. When there is much pain, opium must be prescribed, at any rate at bedtime. If none of these remedies produce any percep- tible eifect; if the ulcer continue to increase in size, or, becoming deeper, to threaten perforation ; if an hypopyon is formed; or, lastly, if the ten- sion of the eye become decidedly increased, the question of an operation must at any rate be entertained. In case an operation is determined upon, an iridectomy, a paracentesis corneae, or a Saemisch, will ]probably have to be performed; but the general practitioner will act wisely in leaving a specialist to decide which of these opera- tions the exigencies of a particular case demand.