The commoner diseases of the eye : how to detect and how to treat them . Irrigating Bottle. discharge and other accumulations, is accom-plished by means of weak solutions of any oneof the antiseptics commonly used in ocular thera-peutics, viz., bichlorid of mercury (1-10000Vboric acid, borate of soda (4%). formalin 1 :5000. or sterilized water. The lavage should be REMEDIES IN OPHTHALMIC PRACTICE 467 copious and it is most effective when the solutionis warm. Of the many appliances at our command oneof the most useful for the purposes of irrigationis the undine, although an ordinary fountainsyr
The commoner diseases of the eye : how to detect and how to treat them . Irrigating Bottle. discharge and other accumulations, is accom-plished by means of weak solutions of any oneof the antiseptics commonly used in ocular thera-peutics, viz., bichlorid of mercury (1-10000Vboric acid, borate of soda (4%). formalin 1 :5000. or sterilized water. The lavage should be REMEDIES IN OPHTHALMIC PRACTICE 467 copious and it is most effective when the solutionis warm. Of the many appliances at our command oneof the most useful for the purposes of irrigationis the undine, although an ordinary fountainsyringe, or a rubber tube syphon, will serveevery purpose. Care should be taken that the. Irrigating the Upper Cul-de-sac. stream of water which strikes the eye should notcome with too much force and that the end ofthe pipette should not touch the cornea, or an-terior portion of the eyeball, lest these parts beinjured. Thorough flushing of the parts ratherthan the employment of force is the object ofirrigation. The nozzle of the irrigating apparatus 468 COMMONER DISEASES OF THE EYE should, consequently, not be directed at the globe;it ought to be held nearly parallel with the lidedges. In irrigating the upper sulcus and upper aspectof the globe the patient looks down while theupper lid is gently drawn away from the eye-ball. This exposes the upper cul-de-sac to the
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