Observations on the efficacy of turpentine in the venereal and other deep seated inflammation of the eye : with some remarks on the influence of that medicine on the system ; accompanied by cases / by Hugh Carmichael.

  • Carmichael, Hugh, active 1829.
Date:
1829
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Credit: Observations on the efficacy of turpentine in the venereal and other deep seated inflammation of the eye : with some remarks on the influence of that medicine on the system ; accompanied by cases / by Hugh Carmichael. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ly, Opium, is also used, and pretty extensively, when Mercury (Calomel) is the treatment adopted ; but the removal of the disease under it is entirely attributed to the latter, the former being conjoined with it for the purpose of de- taining it in the alimentary canal, and thereby promoting its absorption into the system ; or it may also have the effect of allaying severe pain, and with which view they were exhibited in the cases they were here employed in: in this way they may, sometimes, be serviceable. By these means the administration of Tur- pentine has very seldom indeed failed in effect- ing a perfect cure, the amendment being gene- rally quite perceptible the day after it had been commenced with, as may be readily conceived, from the well known quickness with which it pervades the system : I must, however, observe that, in a very few instances it was not attended with such marked success j and, although in my own opinion, its failure in them may be at- tributed to other causes than its inefficacy, I consider it right, however, to notice them here. In the Syphilitic, as already remarked, its effects appear to be most decided; 1 mean when accompanied by those symptoms already men- tioned, and which are considered as character- izing that species of Iritis, relying very much on
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