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every cafe what ought to be igi 
Both eyes, even though one only may be inflamed, ought 
alwa in one of the foregoing manners, 
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omprefs fhould be frequently 
changed, becaufe ‘the difcharge would foon render it har 
and if + in which fate it would 
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parts, which become gia Neat diftended, and hang down 
in the form o ale is not of frequent occur- 
rence; but it does occainaly ‘happen, and may be miftaken 
by an incautious atous {welling of the 
eye-! I 7 ids be ies a little from each 
ea at the internal angle, the confined tears will flow out 
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diately ii bfide. expedien adopted every 
day, and even ot Frvecially + ste the tears are ns 
and doe ae 
e lower one, 
becomes fo acrid and irritating, that it mate- 
rially nas to keep up the effufion of tears, burning and 
un y this means, the ufually experiences 
confiderable relief of all his Serer fenfations. 
ng the adherent eye-lids, - sensi fc) 
i y not be irritated or 
lower eye-lid, and coafequently ~~ for the alae of 
opening the eye, nothing more is neceffary than ofe 
the above hairs. The objeé& can be beft fulfilled by foften- 
ing the le ware mi which makes the eye-lafhes re, 
means of cure required b oregoi ing in- 
dieations, in cafes of ophthalmy, external es applications 
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degree of irritation. It appears to Richter, that the ordi- 
ary mode of ufing lotions ra the eye by we m 
comprefs Y» it is rendered hard and tiff, 
in this ftates it irritates and dilturbs the eye. The belt 
plan is to infinuate a few drops of lyrium into the 
inner angle of the eye, while the Laas lies upon his back. 
Thus, ontaét with the 
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eye-ball towards the exter nal angle, efpecially when the 
patient moves the eye-lids, and turns his head fideways, but 
it alfo continues a Catan time upon the affected parts, if 
the patient be kept upon his back, and a few frefh drops be 
paca practifed, and the e 
bear the firlt clafs of remedies, lai 
would increafe the pain and inflam n pro 
tion as the pain fubfides, and the neces for bleeding sn 
nifhes, and as the inflammation a chronic nature, 
fuch applications become more ufeful. “The more painful 
and acute the ophthalmy i af the more proper are se hyd ay 
remedies of the fecond ¢ Certain ophthalmies, alfo, 
ich are not very v jolent ad acute, but which are atten ed 
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As Richter obferves, there are cafes in which the furgeon 
forefees ae Seana and by anaes prophylactic a 
as itin his power to prevent, at ali events, leffen it. 
Such inftances pare coll occur in ye eperatione cao 
the eyes. Here inflammation is always to be expected, ar 
