Transactions . Mrs. F. R. H.—Age of the cornea. Roy : Degeneration of the Cornea. 103 the slightest indication of the same in the patient of her children give the best indications of good health. Treatment.—Every known local and systemic remedywas tried which experience taught offered the slightestprospects of benefit, such as atropin, dionin, j^ellow salve,calomel powder, cautery, etc. Finally we undertook to remove the spots by was done at intervals of a week or ten days, scrapingaway not more than three at a sitting, because of the pain,ev
Transactions . Mrs. F. R. H.—Age of the cornea. Roy : Degeneration of the Cornea. 103 the slightest indication of the same in the patient of her children give the best indications of good health. Treatment.—Every known local and systemic remedywas tried which experience taught offered the slightestprospects of benefit, such as atropin, dionin, j^ellow salve,calomel powder, cautery, etc. Finally we undertook to remove the spots by was done at intervals of a week or ten days, scrapingaway not more than three at a sitting, because of the pain,even under deep local anesthesia. There was always quitea little reaction, which had to be combated by atropin,hot fomentations, and exclusion of light. Only the super-ficial parts of the opacities could be removed, as the deeperportions seemed to be in the superficial layers of the corneaproper. This treatment was continued for several months,and then abandoned, as it appeared to me that no permanentresults
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