DISEASES OF ADULT LIFE. odt 
ears an application of the drops morning and night, and a 
course of blood purifiers, with the weekly course of medicine, 
will be the best thing. 
INFLAMMATION OF THE EYE. 
Having already pointed out the general treatment in 
children’s diseases, it will be sufficient to give a few extra 
recipes and directions The plan of treatment is the same 
for ali local inflammations: equalise the circulation, and 
withdraw the abnormal pressure of blood from the part. There 
is an old gentleman living near this city who was very ill. 
He went to Sydney for treatment, and an eye doctor there 
recommended cold water to the eyes and hot water cloths to 
the back of his head. This did him good. He was also 
advised to let his hair grow long, which he did. He is now 
taken for a Christian Israelite, but he has never had a bad 
turn with his eyessince. Doctors differ very much here as in 
othertreatment, one preferring cold water, another hot. %While 
attending a New York clinical lecture, an amusing incident 
occurred. A very smart young professor was pointing out 
the benefits of hot water on the eyes of a young patient who 
stood beside him He said, ‘' You see, gentlemen, what a 
benefit is derived from the application of hot water. We 
ordered this girl to bathe her eyes with hot water, and a great 
improvement is the result... The girl looked up and said, 
*' Sir, it was cold water you told me to use, and I used it.” 
The professor's face shone like the head appendage of a 
Spanisn rooster. In addition to what we have already said 
and given as remedies, an excellent eye-wash is composed of 
one grain of sulphate of hydrastis to one ounce of distilled or 
rain water. We have seen a severe inflammation subdued in 
a day with a lotion of one grain corrosive sublimate to four 
ounces of water. Old chronic cases are greatly benefited by 
causing a fresh or acute inflammation. yThe eye is painted 
with an infusion of jequerity bean, three to five per cent; that 
is, 100 parts of water, three to five parts of the bruised beans. 
One bathing is sufficient to light up an inflammation which 
