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^' In the two first species of the disease, the inflammation, 

 la a great many instancesj induced fever of many davs du-> 

 lation, and the disease too frequently terminated in opacity 

 of the cornea, or in suppuration of the eye-ball. 



" In the treatment, it appears, from the reports, that dif- 

 ferent gentlemen followed very different modes. We said, in 

 general, that the European practice did not succeed. Srari- 

 hcatioa and astringent collyria, in tfie first stage, gave into- 

 Jerable pain, and generally aggravated the symptoms. 



" The practice of the natives was, to apply, in the first 

 staoe, emollient decoctions of their plants, and poultices of 

 the kali. In the last stage, they rely much on the frequently 

 bathing of the eye in the cold water of the Nile; they are like- 

 wise very fond of bleeding; and I understood that some- 

 times they use the actual cautery, burning behind the ear 

 where we usually apply blistefs. 



'' The practice, which appeared to be by L\r the most suc- 

 cessful, was the following: 



" For the first twenty-four or thirty-six hours after ad- 

 mission, the eyes of every patient were carefully syringed 

 with tepid water, which had been filtered carefully. The 

 syringing was performed from three to six times in the day; 

 the light was carefully excluded, the patient kept cool, and 

 "every other part of the antiphlogistic regimen strictly en- 

 forced. After the above period, a weak solution of sugar 

 of lead, of of camphir, or vitriolated zinc, was applied. 

 Where the pain was much complained of, a solution of 

 opium was added to the collyrium; opium was applied in a 

 cataplasm, of two or three drops of laudanum were let fall 

 into the eve. 



" If there was much swelling, a saturnine poultice, or the. 

 foagulum ahnninosum, was applied to the eyes. 1 ob- 

 served, that blistering a large surface, and as near as pos- 

 sible to the seat of the pain, if kept discharging for some 

 time, always aO'orded great relief. 



" To remove the fever and to alleviate the distressing pain, 

 ^\'c often e;ave opium internally in a considerable quantity, 

 and with great advantage. 



" Setons in the neck and the free use of bark appeared to 

 be of the greatest service, when the disease was of long 

 Standing. 



" In o|)r)cilv of the cornea, and when there were specks, 

 several a'cntlfmen thought highly of the aqua phagedaenica 

 of the old pharmacopoeias, after having divided the ves'^els 

 M hich went to the speck. It gave very pungent pain ; but 



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