Essentials of Refraction and the Diseases of the EyeW.B. Saunders, 1890 - 276 pages |
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Page 24 - However, the results of tests which entirely disprove this view of the phenomenon are given in the following table. The first column gives the number of the experiment, the second...
Page 242 - Formula 21 should be made to the interior of the larynx every other day with the powderblower. If shallow ulcers are present they should be touched each day with the solid nitrate of silver melted on the end of a probe. This may be accomplished by melting a few crystals of the nitrate on a silver coin and dipping the end of a cold silver probe into it. Enough of the silver nitrate will adhere to the end of the probe to make one application. If, however, the ulcers are deep, such applications will...
Page 221 - A gumma may be absorbed under treatment or, breaking down, result in a rapidly spreading ulceration. When an ulcerating gumma is situated upon the posterior wall of the pharynx, the cervical vertebrae or even the cervical cord itself may finally become involved, and a fatal issue result. In such cases also the utmost care is required to prevent union of the soft palate and uvula to the pharyngeal wall, when the ulceration has also involved the posterior surface of the palate. Where union has actually...
Page 260 - Useful in syphilitic affections of the nose and throat where it is advisable to get the patient under the influence of mercury as speedily as possible. The injections may be made as often as once a day, deep into the cellular tissue of the back. The injection causes a moderate amount of pain, which continues for about an hour, and the place where the injection was made remains a little sensitive to the touch for twenty to forty-eight hours ; abscess does not occur when the proportion of corrosive...
Page 221 - In secondary syphilis the larynx almost always becomes involved, so that the voice is hoarse, and there is present a short cough of a peculiar metallic -character, which once heard and recognized, is rarely forgotten. Mucous patches and erythematous patches in the throat are almost always symmetrical ; that is, both sides of the throat are attacked in corresponding localities by similar lesions, while tertiary lesions do not as frequently present this symmetry. Gummata more frequently involve the...
Page 211 - Formula 73 may be given three or four times a day, according to the emergencies of the case and the patient's susceptibility to mercury. Mercury may also at the same time be administered by inunction or fumigation, or, in cases where the most speedy effect possible upon the .syphilitic lesion is desired, it may be administered hypodermically.