. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. ght, and all errors of diet. The internal administrationof potassium iodide, mercurials, and laxatives sometimesdoes good. Much has been claimed for the subcutane-ous injection of pilocarpine and for the internal adminis-tration of infusions of jaborandi, in inducing diaphoresis,and thus aiding in the promotion of absorption of thesevitreous opacities. Some authors also claim good re-sults from repeated paracentesis of the anterior the opacities are of
. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. ght, and all errors of diet. The internal administrationof potassium iodide, mercurials, and laxatives sometimesdoes good. Much has been claimed for the subcutane-ous injection of pilocarpine and for the internal adminis-tration of infusions of jaborandi, in inducing diaphoresis,and thus aiding in the promotion of absorption of thesevitreous opacities. Some authors also claim good re-sults from repeated paracentesis of the anterior the opacities are of long standing, something mayperhaps be gained by the application of the constantcurrent in inducing absorption. In the case of opacitiesdue to extravasations of blood, the patient should bekept quietly on his back. Heurteloups artificial leechshould be applied to the temple, and cold compressesapplied directly to the closed lids, alternating with thepressure-bandage. Synchysis Simpler and Synchysis Scintillans.—Thevitreous body may lose its normal gelatinous consistence,and become more or less fluid. This occurs almost con-. K/mw0 FlQ. 4i()9.—1. Tufts of crystals of tyrosine attached to crystals of eho-testerine. 2. Spherical masses of tyrosine. 3. Crystals of tyrosine de-posited on cholesterine, with spherical phosphatic masses. -1. Plate ofcholesterine with a split or cleft, to which arc attached tyrosine and 6. Cellular elements of the vitreous, in one of which the proto-plasm is stuffed with phosphatic crystals. 7. Cells attached to aspheroidal phosphatic mass. 8. Large spheroidal phosphatic mass, inthe interior of which are numerous cellular elements. 9. Largespheroidal phosphatic mass, covered with crystal needles. All thesefigures are taken from a case of synchysis scintillans. (From the articleby De Wecker, on Diseases of the Vitreous, in the Traite CompletdOphthalmologie, Tome II., 2d fasciculus, by Wecker & Landolt,Paris, 1884.) stantly in chronic infla
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