GUTTA SERENA. a0 
Sometimes, as we have eek explained, fymptoms and Schmucker, and thus compofed : Re Mercur. Viv. Beith hin. § 
appearances occur i - courfe of the cafe, which aflift the Saechar. Alb. dr. iij pulv, Lill. Alb, Rad. Valerian. adr j 
furgeon in aie achoice of the means of cure, and lead Mifce. The patient may alfo apply to his noftrils the fleam 
him to give a pretrence to this or that empirical remedy, or of any emollient deco¢tion, containing a proportion of va- 
n. 
may Siheniie akon ark fymptoms of preternatural irri In thofe cafes in which a ee or light-coloured a 
tion, or of unefual £ feaftbilt in the eye; the patient 8 ance is obfervable at the bottom of the eye, the retina ‘felt 
feveral kinds of coloured or fhining objeéts; his eye is is —- thickened and difeafed. Here fuch medic} icines 
oe and though he is guite blind, he es best a orbit 0) as cicuta, belladonna, m mercury, aqua arimoniz, &e. may 
tried. 
ing mauro: main and can dikene ern better in mec ae. In certain inftances, amaurofis comes on, attended with 
vi fituation. When the furgeon cannot deteé&t any par- an obftinate, frequently returning ophthalmy. When — 
caufe of this irritability, he is juftified in employing is no manifeft caufe for fuch inflammation, antimontals, mer 
fuch general meansas tend to diminifh irritability, and leflen curials, and anodynes may be employed. 
irritation. A decoction of white poppy heads may be ufed Richter next obferves, that, with refpeé& to the periodical 
asacollyrium lukewarm. The extraétum hyofcyami albi, Pass i it is common to prefcribe bark-; yet, 
cicuta, valerian, bark, gum. ammon. galbanum, diforder may proceed from a variety of caufes, 
oleum cajeput, and ee ; ,etpecally the tinéture with bark can be of no fervice, and may even do harm, and 
anti wine, are all pr r medicines i in the preceding lengthen the attacks of the difeafe, while fuch caufes con- 
fort of cafe, tinue unremoved. The caufe of the periodical amaurofis is 
Sometimes the gutta ferena arifes with fymptoms which moit frequently in the vifcera of the abdomen. A man, 
indicate weaknefs and diminifhed fenfibility of the eye. ‘who ufed to be blind every morning, fays Richter, always 
While the patient continues oe entirely blind, he finds his felt at the fame time a fevere pain juft under the falfe ribs, 
fight cloudy, he fees better i in a light than a dark fituation, on the ah ab fide. The attacks always terminated with the 
els a fort of lan anguor - in the eye. ae experiences a difcharge of a large quantity of air from th ic bowels. 
— as . — ~ were in his eyes, and is frequently Henceit is generally proper, in fuch cafes, to clear out the. 
en wipe it away. He finds himfelf able to fee alimentary canal, and it is only when this has been accom- 
better ; juft he aaethe,p or whenever he has been having re- plithed that bark can prove ufeful. Frequently, alfo, va- 
courfe to external corroborant remedies. Suchcireumftances lerian, arnica, or fmall dofes of ipecacuanha, may then be 
the furgeon to employ tonics and ftimulants, when all adminiftered with advantage, 
debilitating caufes are quite undifcoverable. Bark, ammo- — Sometimes the’ Periodical amaurofis originates from 
Mla preparata, valerian, cold water, arnica, cantharides, worms, or from an interrw otion of ihe, nak rual difcharge. 
fpirituous and aromatic external remedies, &c. are proper. Thefe cafes demand a mode of treatment Raia y deferibed. 
_ Sometimes, as Richter further informs us, the fymptoms Occafiotially, the gutta ferena is tia with 
_ teem to indicate a preternatural accumulation of fluid in complaints, with whieh it The re 
the e patient complains of the eye-ball bein tenfe, h are here the proper remedies s for the blinduets. 
Shag Gofatien as if there was not room tebe nf ore | as es 6 found ferviceable. (See 
orbit for the globe of the eye. _ The eye-ball fe iran x{grunde é We Fzne unit, Band 2> ia. 
Patient ff fae a A akiter than ufval. : Mead : 
la rs iu git os Some.c of gui rena are, nature, incurable. 
OF me may fo fach as depend upon tumours 
fituated in the a and compreffing the optic nerves 5 
fuch as. depend upon | : of the opti 
-nerves ; fuch as proeeed from a permanent a rae 
optic i Some in sonfegoence os caries, p> Seen 
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e ee ‘ite ted every da 3 
firft 0 ng muft be pre patel a 
adnate fuels of pigs Sa fe, a ~The late Mr. Fergufon peRtod gp an a arc 
a sgl wii to plying the power of electricity t hort: hie 
of a cork at the finaller end of -a. conical gl , open at botlr 
ends, . erat aoe the axis of this glafs, fo that its 
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diitance of of about half aoinchoran inch fom. T - 
