504 ON DISEASES OF THE EYES. 



the praclicability of an inflramcntal operation. 

 Solleyfel indeed recommends flroaking a white 

 film with the thumb covered with wheat flour, 

 the eyes being previoufly waihed ; which he 

 fays will extirpate it much fooner than the ufe 

 of powders, the beft of which for the purpofe, 

 in his opinion, is fal ammoniac. Bracken re- 

 commends Dr. Mead's ointment, which indeed 

 feems ever to have been mod in repute, whether 

 from the great name of the author, or jrom ex- 

 perience, I know not ; at any rate it does not 

 iiand in the predicament of the Do6lor's chip 

 in porridge for hydrophobia, for of the oint- 

 ment no one can doubt the efficacy, from its 

 incifive power, and I fliould dread its a6lion 

 upon the corners of the eye, and the eye-lids, 

 where it might raife a new inflammation. 

 Take glafs, reduced to a line powder, which 

 fift through fine lawn, and mix with honey. 

 I would advife a vei:y fmall quantity to be tried 

 at firft, which may be increafed, if not found 

 to produce irritation and painful fymptoms. 

 Previoufly to the ufe of the ointment, perhaps 

 the eye fliould always be waflied with fldm-milk 

 and aqua-vegeto. Gibfon advifes white vitriol, 

 one drachm, white fu gar-candy half an ounce, 

 iiround very fine, to be blown into the eve 

 with a tobacco pipe, once a day ; or put into 

 the- corner of the eye, with the finger and 

 thumb. Of thefe applications I have hitherto 



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