. Electricity in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat . d the seances ought not to exceedfifteen minutes, three times a week. For the sake of clearness, I will add that witheighteen m. a. of current, the eye electrodes shouldbe three times the usual size. ECZEMA. Miss S., aged 37, consulted me March 3/10. She had eczema of both upper lids of six weeksduration. The lids were brownish and scaly. Shewas treated with the 500 c. p. lamp for twenty min-utes tri-weekly. Four seances produced the desired dermatitis,when treatment was discontinued. A week later, the lids were perfectly normal. NEV
. Electricity in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat . d the seances ought not to exceedfifteen minutes, three times a week. For the sake of clearness, I will add that witheighteen m. a. of current, the eye electrodes shouldbe three times the usual size. ECZEMA. Miss S., aged 37, consulted me March 3/10. She had eczema of both upper lids of six weeksduration. The lids were brownish and scaly. Shewas treated with the 500 c. p. lamp for twenty min-utes tri-weekly. Four seances produced the desired dermatitis,when treatment was discontinued. A week later, the lids were perfectly normal. NEVUS. 203 HERPES OPTHALMICUS. Leprince says that the galvanic current relievesthe pain and accelerates the recovery of this erup-tion. In two complicated cases, Page has employedthe continuous current with success. Parasotti has used faradism to restore the sen-sibility in one case. In one case, Leprince used the a;-ray. Afterfour seances, the pain had completely disappearedand recovery followed in ten days. NEVUS. Bordier mentions the happy results obtained. Fig. 95.—Krohmeyers Lamp. 204 ELECTRICITY IN DISEASES OF THE EYE. with a Kromeyers lamp, applied directly to sec-tions of a very extensive nevus. The application of intense light was made toeach part for a half hour, daily, for fifteen the end of five days, the nevus was replaced by arosy tint and the cicatrice was perfectly smooth. NEVUS VASCULARIS. ANGIOMA. MOTHERs MARKS. BLASTOMYCETES. Rogers writes that the forms of nevus vascu-laris which are most amenable to treatment includenevus flammeus: known as birthmark or port winestain. It is congenital. Technic.—If the nevus is not more than oneto two inches in diameter, it should be covered bypieces of asbestos paper, one-sixteenth of an inchthick, which have been moistened in cold water, and,through which, holes the size of the diseased sur-
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