. The proceedings of the Charaka Club. , tiftr^vKri. Rare mutilated early Greek jars for lykion, a?i ointment extensively used inaffections of the eye. The name of the dispenser frequently precededthe word lykion. {After Sir fames Simpson. Jars of natural size.) by being rubbed with a rough fig leaf, or were grounddown with pumice-stone, after which sulphate of copperwas rubbed in. A recent German writer of polemical tendencies,in discussing the French claim to priority in thescratching operation for trachoma known as grattage,which consists in scarifying the conjunctiva and scrub-bing out the


. The proceedings of the Charaka Club. , tiftr^vKri. Rare mutilated early Greek jars for lykion, a?i ointment extensively used inaffections of the eye. The name of the dispenser frequently precededthe word lykion. {After Sir fames Simpson. Jars of natural size.) by being rubbed with a rough fig leaf, or were grounddown with pumice-stone, after which sulphate of copperwas rubbed in. A recent German writer of polemical tendencies,in discussing the French claim to priority in thescratching operation for trachoma known as grattage,which consists in scarifying the conjunctiva and scrub-bing out the infiltrations with a stiff toothbrush, says 96 THE CHARAKA CLUB that every sort of mechanical treatment of trachomaknown to-day is described in the works of Hippocrates,barring only Knapps perfected operation of expressionwith the roller forceps, and that even this is hinted at. In the treatment of the severer external and thedeep diseases of the eye, according to the Greekpathological ideas, the indication was for the purgingof the head—Kadapai


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