GUTTA SERENA; 
vour to avoid every thing likely to make the fuppuration with the eye. All fpirituous. and aromatic remedies ste 
more extenfive, and the confequent cicatrix larger. Should likewife proper, pad have the quality of ftrengthening 
the wound be eeeady healed, and the blindnefs have come this n. The infufum valeriane et falvie, with a fourth. 
on, we muft put in practice fuch means as have, in fome in- of campho a fpirit, Richter {peaks of as an ufeful 
flance or shother, been found fuccefsful. Hence emollient application, wie which the eye-lids, and parts around the 
oils and ointments ought to be ftrongly and frequently rub- repeatedly rubbed. He alfo recommends 
bed on the eye-brow, efpecially in the fituation af the fear. fmearing be. upper eye-lid now and then with the oleum 
aollient fomentations may likewife be employed with a cajeput. 
rofpect of benefit. As this fort of amaurofis evidently When no probable caufe whatfoever can be affigned for 
originates from nervous irritation, Richter queftions, whe- Fie difeafe, the urgent is jultified in employing fuch reme- 
ther fome good might a be derived from opium and other as haye been pro y experience to be capab 
antifpafmodic remedies? And whether, in. the event of tome wt relievin ily affection: although upon ae pin 
this i, sailings giies night not be expected from making _ ple is utterly ae The chief means of this kind are 
a divifion- o Pit (Anfangfgr. der Wundarzney- emetics, given in {mall dofes to excite naufea, and occafi- 
kuntt, Band onall in larger ones to occafion vomiting. A fimple Eictios 
It is opaty to the practice, than the theories, of the con- of two grains of the antimonium tartarizatum in a few ounces 
— furgeons, in cafes of amaurofis, that we are anxious of water, taken by {poonfuls, frequently. proves produétive 
cite the reader’s attention. We "de. unk defie hem fe to of cn cmapass benefit. Ex Apar ience is alfo highly in favour. 
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gutta ferena. tag 8: ow cst fuch difeafes cannot make The aperstion ¥ Brg: pills may be te = affilted Vr the 
a perfon infceptible. of the latter diforder, fo we can rea- exhibition of a a and valeri rian, — grains of which. 
Ly conceive, that, in many cafes, the blindnefs may begin fho e en oe morning and evening, and the dofe 
about time when a rheumatifm, a clap, an itch, &c. are dually in leaves and flowers of arnica in an. 
giving way to their er remedies. When Richter in- infufion, or elfe in powder, have been found efficacious. Of 
forms us, that an urofis, page with confiderable the laft, at firft ten grains, afterwards gradually increafed 
weeping and certealiuty of the eye, and originating after y half a dram, may be prefcribed every two or four hours.” 
the repreffion ai a Esra 28 cur red by blittering she Arnica “9 likewife bees ng ufeful co nee with sole” 
eader to credit the rian alone, in the form — pe Hy in n the dofe. 
but ite to recollect ee go 3 ful mode of a half a dram fe Serena times a day, may alfo be tried. - 
When valerian is ftated to have cured a gutta Or this medicine may be joined with a decoétion a3 bark, . 
the repreffion of an itchyeruption, containing either toe of the ammonia preparata, or a pro-- 
pee s only. required to attend to the practice, and he per preportion of the {piritus ztheris. vitriolici pat ae us. 
ay difmifs as much of the theory as he likes. Snuff may be taken up the eres or may be ufed as an- 
he third {pecies of the gutta ferena, or that which arifes aera: in a collyrium, of which one-third fhould be ~ 
is of wo kinds: fometimes the ted fpirit. Stork has recommended pulfatilla, in 
2 ¢ of the body, the form of an extraét, of ehh hea ote anann e 
While, In other init: effet of a debility, whicu grains. a: t0.be SakeD with fugar, or-antimonial wine, or an. 
Wconfined to the eye iefelf, and does not extend to the mfufion of this plant may be given, The extraétum hyo-- 
Whole conftitution. “In the firtt cafe, pees food, and feyami = is faid to be an po ae! ese either alone, 
we a a ee fteel, and Spee in the d am ple ¥ Som J two to Cy oF 
praifed, Exte 1a ‘ammouiz ¢ a 
with fage, feel Sete may be ufed as a a a ig A. 
of oleum hartfhorn, » in or parts, may 
Richens = not ve of on the upper pea eet a eye-b arner exhibited 
Sy ies segs for bathing ec the oleum suing mie é See a aaee der. 
nels, from which the eye foon makes Wundarzney sale 
recom mended as a. 
ometimes j in another. <4 
one 
ri er al 
oes oes 
feveral times a pase Mee aga of the na- eye- 
rp in eq raper tions, ‘great care 
“= taken that none of the ieee come into into contaét 
