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Title: A system of genito-urinary diseases, syphilology and dermatology
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Morrow, Prince A. (Prince Albert), 1846-1913, ed
Subjects: Skin Syphilis Genitourinary organs
Publisher: New York : Appleton
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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as free from discharge (day and night) as pos-sible by frequent washing, the frequency of the washing to be regulated bythe amount of the discharge ; in other words, the discharge must be washed Fig. 4.—Bullers protective shield (reduced onenaif in size). * Previous to the introduction of jequirity, trachoma with pannus was in aggravatedcases treated by inoculating the eye with gonorrha?al pus. INFLUENCE OF AGE. 229 away as soon as it forms. In the interval of washing, iced cloths mustbe kept applied (day and night) to the eyelids. The cold is best appliedby means of pledgets of linen, two inches square, kept cold on a block ofice at the bedside, and laid on the affected eye, changing the linen beforeit becomes warm. These pieces of linen must never be reapplied to theblock of ice, but be hurned at once. The eye should be washed with asolution of boric acid (three per cent), or bichloride of mercury (1 to 10,000or 1 to 20,000); the boric-acid solution is preferable. The solution of
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Fig. 5.—Patitjiit in jiOhitimi fnr irritcation. Pui-basiu held by patient under aflected eye. Bullersprotective shield over right eye. Pieces of linen on block of ice. Pan under talile to receivesoiled iced-cloths. boric acid should be prepared with boiled water from the kettle, to insureits being clean. The solution of bichloride of mercury should be pre-pared with distilled water. The solution should be used cold. Fig. 5 represents the method employed at the Charity Hospital forapplying cold and irrigating the eye. The right eye has been protectedby Bullers shield ; the head is inclined toward the left, and a pus-basinheld by the patient himself just beneath the eye receives the discharge whenthe eye is irrigated. The fountain syringe, with rubber tubing attached, 230 GONORRHGEAL OPHTHALMIA.

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