Lectures on diseases of the eye / by Charles Bell Taylor.

  • Bell Taylor
Date:
1888
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    should have got into one or other of the child's eyes, it may be destroyed at once and in situ, before any harm is done, by a two per cent, solution of nitrate of silver,'^ and if one eye should unfortunately have become infected before you see the case, and mind you, it is seldom that both eyes are struck at once,+ the sound eye may be protected and sight assuredly preserved by the use of this little simple contrivance, this sticking plaister * Tliia is Crede's mucli vaunted method; a solution of nitrate of silver eight grains to the ounce, is dropped into each eye of every child born, dans les services d'accouchement, and Dr. Kaltenbach iu a recent com- munication to the Congres Allemand de Gynecologic declares that the cases of purulent ophthalmia have in consequence diminished from 15 per 100 to 0 per 100.—(See Recueil d'Ophthahnologie for August, 1886.) t The ophthalmia almost always appears at first in one eye alone, the other being afEected some days after. The transference of the secretion from one eye to the other seems to be the usual origin of the disease in the second eye. — (See Treatise on Diseases of the Eye, by Carl Stellwag Von Carrion, Professor of Ophthalmology in the Imperial Koyal University of Vienna, p. 317.)
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