The homeopathic practice of surgery : together with operative surgery . er-come by Oalc. carb. and Bellad. In the archives of homeopathy,two cases are mentioned in which Caustic, given for another dis-ease, caused total blindness; in one case the patient remainedblind. In a case of sudden attack of blindness with double vision, 278 CATARACT. vertigo and sick headache, I have exhibited Oieuta virosa in alter-nation with Sulph., which was sufficient to cure the disease. In Saturnine amaurosis in a gentleman engaged in the manu-facture of white lead, Plumbum metall. 3, effected a complete
The homeopathic practice of surgery : together with operative surgery . er-come by Oalc. carb. and Bellad. In the archives of homeopathy,two cases are mentioned in which Caustic, given for another dis-ease, caused total blindness; in one case the patient remainedblind. In a case of sudden attack of blindness with double vision, 278 CATARACT. vertigo and sick headache, I have exhibited Oieuta virosa in alter-nation with Sulph., which was sufficient to cure the disease. In Saturnine amaurosis in a gentleman engaged in the manu-facture of white lead, Plumbum metall. 3, effected a complete : like vapor before the eyes, severe costiveness threedays or more ; no evacuation, appetite good, tongue yellow-coated;evening worse. I will also mention in this place that in all swellings and ex-crescences of the eyelids known in ophthalmic works under thename of Hordeolum, Milleum, Verrum, Condyloma, no remedyhas been found superior to Thuja; this was also the principalremedy used in a scirrhous tumor of the eyes in the case of theAustrian Marshal CATARACT. This is, perhaps, the most interesting cause of blindness next to that last treated of. While, Fig. 6. . however, amaurosis is properly described as nervous blind-ness, this as well as cornealaffections, to be next considered,may be distinguished as me-chanical blindness. That maybe only a functional disease;these are necessarily organic.^ that subject will be fully treatedof in Part II. The general distinction be-tween this affection and opaci-ties of the cornea, is, that theopacity is here behind the pupil, either in the crystaline lens itself,
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