SELECTIONS FROM OPHTHALMIC PRACTICE IN THE CO^YASJEE JEHANGHEER BOMBAY.

HOSPITAL, By Assistant Surgeon George Watees, Bombay Army. (inorrhages ; vision is smoky. Treatment?Artificial leech to temple. Perchloridi Potass Chloridi. Sarsae. Co. Decoct.

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4th day.?Much the same. Continue treatment, and apply a blister behind each ear. 5tli day.?Superficial redness much less; no pain ; dress blistered surfaces with savine ointment. 8th day.?Slight increase of scleral injection. Plummer's pill gr. v. in addition to former treatment. lOtli day.?No superficial redness. Continue all. 13th day.?Complains of pain in the bones.

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day.?Discharged. The eye is free from pain and and vision much improved, indeed the latter is normal. The treatment and result of this case afford a pretty good example of what benefit may be expected in suph affections from the early exhibition of antisyphylitic remedies. out-door department" during The number treated in the the past month was 583, being much fewer than ordinary. This was doubtless due to the inclemency of the weather preventing many patients from presenting themselves as often as they would had the weather been dry. Affections of the conjunctiva and cornea furnished about two-thirds of the whole. The latter, excepting what resulted from injury, occurred pretty generally in the scrofulous, debilitated and cachectic, which may fairly be put down as predisposing to diseases of the cornea; ?while the former presented itself in all conditions of health, viz., the weak, the strong, the young, old and middle-aged, and, bo far as we can learn, was mainly originated by living in dwellings where hygiene is disregarded. 18th

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Selections from Ophthalmic Practice in the Cowasjee Jehangheer Hospital, Bombay.

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