GUTTA SERENA, 
Foreign furgeons make mention of an amaurofis, which 
proceeds from a venereal caufe, and demands the employ- 
nt of merc This cafe, they fay, is fometimes in- 
curabley, and perhaps may depend upon an exoltofis, fitu- 
ated in the orbit, and Eerie preflure upon the optic 
herve, 
The gutta migra 
from the fudden 
expelled 
from the fyftem, or broug ‘ back to the place she which 
it has beam driven. This author informs us, that a man 
who had spplied cold water to his | gouty “ee became blind, 
nd Aw n, who had loft 
her fight in confequence of a violent fight; § is faid by Rich- 
ter to have-been cured by taking valerian, after fome mildly 
g medicines. He ftates that, in another cafe of this 
cajeput oleum was found of ufe, after a gentle eva- 
cuation. (See Anfangfgr. der Wundarzneykunt. Band and 3.) 
The foreign mode of treating the gutta ferena, conneéted 
meatles, 
' with the gout, fevers, fmall-pox, may be fully 
underitood from the following cafes, and remarks afforded 
- © You mutt endeavo 
Schmu ur (fays he) to re- 
move the remnants of thefe difeafes as quickly as poflible, 
and bring the conftitution sate its proper ftate. Emetic 
pet in the saa of _—* 
slope apply bli ers ne eh coun ie 
i emetic tartar, and imme diately exhi- 
an infufion of woodlice. I fhall cite a few inftances in 
confirmation of its efficacy. man two and fi 
= = was fubje& to fits of the gout, 
had fo violent an attack in the th 
ia fuch extreme pain, tha hat it not only p rom 
or feveral nights, but braigcie on a confiderable 
ve hours the patient became in both eyes. 
pee the following day, Me 
diftended | 
and, in order to increafe the 
another bit lower — about as broad as 
ury hand. ‘As an internal medicine, I ordered 
active pie You 
and calves of the legs. better 
If the ti kan Paes ihe by this firft flrong vomit, you re- 
bli 
> the pa oid the dans ese the 
5 | and irritated, 
_kind of amauro 
ictions u} 
a- fu fappuration erheie them by the 
again matter 
mixed two grains of emetic tartar with fix ounces of water 
and gave him a fpoonf Pig only of 
rated once, makin fick 
girl, feven years of aa caught the meafles, and 
baie fuffered to run about in the cold, they were diiven } in, 
and the child became quite blind in both eyes. Several per- 
fons were confulted, vita recipe pat. their efforts, the 
continu o years afterwards confulted ; 
dak a Y aecolan of Shee for her ee 
tenth day I gave her a gentle were and then made her 
take ten of refolvent pills. 
3; but in ae to excite Laie mgs es and more 
tuelye valle at trae of ufe the eaind vapour, Tn 
nine months fhe got pe hae "7 (See S Seu 
Vermifchte Chirurgifche Schri 
With regard to the gutta ee aes f rom wounds ot 
the “pete. Wes thinks it pe that the dileal 
P d from an actual injury of the fupra-orbitary 
nerve ; for it fede, follows the wound Pa but 
cured, which could h 
have happened, if the diforder had actually depended upon 
a wound of the ne 
In the opinion of this author, it appears likely, that Rot 
in this inflance, is to 
oak the nerve is prellee 
as the lofs of fae i in general doe not take 
place till the fear begins to form. It is in the Fb way 
that the 5 cd ale is produced, which is fometimes the confe- 
quence of cattration. (See Theden’s Bermerkungen). 
method by which the blindnefs has fometimes been removed 
likewife increafi ef ther ae of this account. ‘This 
cient been cured by flrong 
se (Pharos and alfo. by. fi 
-ointmen 
in all wounds of the sige! to preve®™ 
ention. 
your 
at be hindered from forage we tho 
e. ly spc = ane Aa for a confiderable time, with iottets 
