GUTTA SERENA. 
following medicine :. R. Calomel. Camph. a a gr. ij. Conferv. This author makes us acquainted with a very interefting ex. 
Cynofb. q.s. probe mifceant et fiant bolus. _The patient, ample in which the efficacy of awe eed was demonitrated, 
who was a lady, had been previoufly bled twice, and had The difeafe made its attack very fuddenly, on the fubfidence 
— ‘eae nervous medicines. mend was spas upon a ftoel of a ferere pain in ~ teeth and ose of the face. ae 
and itfcavorbltary nerves sag After this operation had cure more fpe edy, hatin in the seniliplng- recorded - 
een continued half an hae » fhe was made to : soe for, Hey in the fifth ‘volume of the Medical Obfervations sab 
an equal time, flight fhocks through, the affected p LM aniries (See Chirurgical Obfervations relative to the 
a few days, fight began to return, and in lefs he three Eye; vol: i.) 
months it. was quite reltored. In another cafe, one grain Schmucker preferibes a fternutative powder made of mere 
of calomel and two of camphor, pena every — in cury, fugar, and valerian. 
conjunGtion with electricity, efleed a cure. The diteafe Befides irritating the Siimeiderian membrane, imulating 
had come on gradually, without any ores accident or applications may be rubbed on the upper eye-lid, and on 
pains in the head. ‘The patient was a boy nine years of the parts about the eye-brows. ‘I'wo drops of fennel, or 
: cajeput oil, may be ufed in this manner, or elfe a little hart 
Mr. has veededed? fevers} other ieee cafes of horn. 
Pex ry all of which tend to prove electricity.a powerful — Cantharides are alfo of eminent ufe in numerous cafes . 
remedy for this difeafe, though it is true, as Beane has gutta ferena, efpecially the bliftering platter which is made of 
onerer that in moit of the initances adduced by Mr. hes 6 them. ‘This may ret ee behind the ears and over 
ieclieshap were ee. and yet the msl of the tharides ne been found faticedeks in ‘fo me paral és affece 
ndment feemed to be as in them other tions, ee Brifbane’s Scleét Cafes &c.), it is not unreafon= 
Lge fae and becaufe, in two inftances, a d ree of fight =< to pete that ame remedy may paige do good 
the firft Oy ee greed of city. We in cafes of sider: From ten to twenty drops the 
abeae. it was. Mr. Hey who firft auticed the ohibecieys of sitar lytte ay be adminiltered, twice a day, in Li 
f ht, = is invariably attendant on amaurofis. “He convenient vehicle 
» that it remarkable in thofe a The fhower bith thich hae proved ufeful in other weake 
who had ‘eoeally loft che: roe of either eye; for inthem the nefles and paralytic ee may likewife be of fervice ia 
a ch s of sa feemed to make the firft font ble i im- fome cafes of gutta feren 
pre upon the retina; and, in proportion as that nervous = Abroad, sioterihie vl sis parts about the eye-brow vith : 
coat ogaued fenfibility, the fight became more dire&t and heated iron, or the moxa, is fometimes praétifed, and, asf 
oral, afferted, With beneficial.effe@ts. We would not with, how-_ 
‘Mr. Ware has recommended electricity, nd the ufe of a ever, to fee the ule of a€tual fire again revived among Eng- 
ercurial fnuff, for ty age =. the and ferena. a lith furgeons. ght 5H 
Pn aap § om Richter informs us of a man, who was was com. 
hiza, or common sas A day, for a quarter of an Neu “ada time, to pe Gd wy 
imulate | nofe very fun. When the patient had regained fuch font y 
eneral, fevbee es, that the light of the fun was seeing 1€ was 
ing fe difcha -of mucus. directec to keep t ans fi n fhining objects. 
At ing to Mr. Ware, the cafes which recei 1B Biot Upon the the fame et is it is” bleeds deaf perions 
from eleceeaelly are generally attended with a dilated ftate of have occafionally had their hearing re-eftablithed: ee fone 
the pupil. eeeepinn 9 he notices that there are many in- violent noife. 
oe which a contraction of the pupil is the only char Ss oregoing 
; pearance of the eye. In this em —- kinds a rahasdee admit of a rational choice be *: 4 
porwr eit the “pilaa tem of fight is ufually } d by made in the employment of them. oe may, for the mow 
may be an i internal oph- part, be divided into two. _claffes, na mely, itimulants ts and 
ometimes, however, as Richter remarks, the 
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