GUTTA 
moderate “| saad of wine, and ufe gentle exercife in a falu- 
brious 
aia Ae a local application, both during the continuance 
and decline of the imperfe&t amaurofis, in order to roufe the 
languid sa os = nerves of the eye, the vapour of the 
aqua amm » properly applied to the affected eye, 
is of the highett advaitige: "This remedy is employed by 
placing a fmall veffel containing it near the — s eye, fo 
that the = penetrating vapour, with w hich it is fur- 
xcite a pri ricking fenfation in that organ ; by 
the ation of which, in lefs than half an hour, the eye, 
Which is expofed to it, becomes red and waters. copioufly. 
It isthen proper to defift from it, and repeat it three or 
four hours afterwards, and continue it in ~ rare until 
Se sap is perfectly cured. If b yes are 
his “difeafe itis unnecefla wo aber, that it 
om t = treat- 
cafes with ‘eteniedee 
See rel the etait colle alkali, ptt ee to the eyes 
with incomplete amaurofis, may be alfo aflifted by 
other ex ftimuli, applied to parts of the body, which 
have ac ote — with the eyes, as bliiters to the neck, 
anodyne liquor, — 
° 
ric Akt 
ec- 
dence is to be placed in it, except as a fecondary re- 
medy 5 and Mr. Tey (Med. Obferv. se Enquiries, vol. v. 
P- 26.), one of the moft zealous promoters of this prac- 
Po confeffes, that electricity is only ufeful in cafes of re- 
Cent amdurofis; and molt frequently only when combined 
opriate internal remedies, among which refol- 
the principal. Sod on the Sa a 
other me- 
oe peoceedlng froth iotietbing wionks 4 
— “We fhall jolt enumerate a feb pera 
— dram of sn aipeiar pace from four to we 
1 day; a folution of black he 
nonial wine, ef elaclinicticine the pati to 
3g ent qu “to procure a ¢ r ger 
pote ns from the bowe Be day; a thin ed 
ed of from one to S96 drams of the powder of saeck 
SERENA. 
and four ounces of honey, which quantity the patient is to 
take gradually in the = of four and twenty hours; a 
wder made of one grain o calomel, one grain ron the ful 
phur auratum antimonii, vi eight of ee » whi 
be taken at night, or every evening and m 
Some of the preceding refolvent pe i 
heating effet, while the 
nature. ft are ferviceable to fuch patients as are 
ee to flufhes of heat, and have a {mall irritable pulfe, 
firlt are hpsirmee? fer eater for patients, w 
have a fmall, foft e, and are not of irritable ha- 
bits. Bowen: oh Rick ter further informs us, we cannot 
always foretel with certainty what kind of refolvent medi- 
cine will an{wer in every particular cafe. eas tage trials 
with different i, ies will, in 4 apong foon point 
one which is t During the employment of fuch 
medicines .as the for cing, pee and purpatives are to be 
adminiftered as often as occafion requires. 
nervous medicines become neceflary. 
tion of the propriety of the preceding aed cites the cafe of 
aman, two and twenty years of age, v ad been blind 
warm 
enever he had ener the 
fix days i in ‘Gisela: he was affedted w 
of appetite, a furred tongue, oppreflions, 
not only always removed thefe fymptoms, but improved the 
- fight fo — that vifion was perfeétly re-eftablifhed after 
the twelfth vo ; 
According 7 ‘fareghead: writers, worms are frequently a 
e of the gutta ferena, parti ‘in children. Perfe- 
verance in the ufe of calomel, femen fantonicum, rhubarb, or: 
j i ét an entire 
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Rickses: and other con- 
amaurofis the repulfion of eruptive complaints, tl of 
old ulcers, and the ftoppage of aqueous, or mucous dif-’ 
eS. ef remedies recommended in cafes’ 
are from fix grains to a feruple of the oe ic peders: 
a aioe’ —_ she fee ammonice "hulp 
wee guint: wine $ 
dofes fo as only to excite pc ag? and scafoai in larger 
— for = Ase wooed "bringing on pgs 
a wine 5 ee in = 
ur ; iffues elec- 
nn el ie vara i 
her are of a cooing, lowering 
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