GUTTA SERENA. 
- gafion.a gutta. ferena. -, However. this. may be,: he, ftates it 
x (Baga that fuch patients frequently complain of a great 
i) 
“The gutta ‘ferena is  couetilly difficult of cure. Howeve er, 
the degree of difficulty in reeving the-difeafe varies in dif- 
ferent cafes, according to the way in which the malady ori- : 
_ ginates, and the nature of its caufe. 
We fhall — = following. pr nents — to the 
— 8 exce ent work he difeafes 
ef inveterate organic 
{tituting the immediate organ of 
vilion, is a. difeafe abfolutely incurable. e amperfed recent 
amir ofisy particularly that which is eoriédica generally ad- 
mits of a.cure, fice at is mo 
ftate.of the ftomach and prime vie, or 
ent on caufes which, though rad affeét the joanadiane organ 
of vilion, may be be removed without hout leaving any trace 
or retina, 
‘ =e general, thofe cafes 0 of amaurosis $ may bere 
a8-incurable, which have exifted for feveral years in perfons 
advanced in age, and d whofe fight has been weak from their 
“youth ; which have been flow ly formed, at firft with a mor- 
bid in increa lity 
* , ? 7 Bs 
e e-ball 5 3 which have been pence by great 
éted « whole nervous fyftem, and 
afterwards by general debility ar and ean af the whole con- 
ftitution, as after the long abufe of {pirituous. a manu 
nels of SF station in hep es 
uence of 
- direét 
, whether the ahs 
blow, ¢ or fome weeks eed the ebedlng 
e fuperc “sae eo oc= 
conne: senses : 
of dif- 2 
Segerdet! ; 
which eo Supanrae2 = 
; ot furgeon, - 
Se ar me bind Be: 
and dimenfion ofthe whole eye-ball,:as when it-is of a long 
oval figure, or of a preternatural bulk or fmallnefs, 
: On. the contrary, thofe a of recent imperfell amaurofs 
Re frequently at leaift, if no always, admit of a cure, 
» «which, although thé patient be st or even vats le 
any of thole 
deprived of fight, have not been produced by 
caufes, which are capable of contufing or daieti ing t 
he amaurofis being f udden and 
although preternatur ally rane is is not ek 
A 
have originated from violent anger ceflive grief, Bie ot 
which have fucceeded an exceflive "fulnefs and crudity. es 
ftomach, plethora, either general, or con nfine 
the fuppreffion of accuite fanguineous 
nofe, uterus, er hemorrhoids ; which ar 
Scarpa aakge ae ose y 
of variolou petic, 
fequence of ‘profufe lofs of blood ; 
pret debility, not inveterate in perfons” who. oe 
and which is confequently yet eres of bei d violet 
, dv \ 
he 
oO cad, 
citcarge from 
cafioned (48 
remedied ; which are produced by convul 
rtain ® Sean a the ear.’ 
opinion of the foregoi 
difleation of the veffi fcls-« 
ope 
