. The American homoeopathist . and Demonstration. fllMscellaneous flDebicaL Ocular Reflex Neurosis.—Manycases of partial or nearly total loss of visioncaused by diseased teeth have been pub-lished. I discussed this topic in a contribu-tion, The Eye-tooth and the Eye in theChicago Medical Investigator (July, 1875),and gave then the accepted explanationfor it, which is that it is a reflex neurosisthrough the ciliary ganglion and the othersympathetic connections of the great tri-facial nerve. Since then a number of in-teresting cases have come under my obser-vation. One case is well worthy ofcomm
. The American homoeopathist . and Demonstration. fllMscellaneous flDebicaL Ocular Reflex Neurosis.—Manycases of partial or nearly total loss of visioncaused by diseased teeth have been pub-lished. I discussed this topic in a contribu-tion, The Eye-tooth and the Eye in theChicago Medical Investigator (July, 1875),and gave then the accepted explanationfor it, which is that it is a reflex neurosisthrough the ciliary ganglion and the othersympathetic connections of the great tri-facial nerve. Since then a number of in-teresting cases have come under my obser-vation. One case is well worthy ofcomment. A lady had a large cavity inthe left upper bicuspid tooth. The dis-eased contents were thoroughly excavatedand removed, and the nerve was killed bya dentist. The tooth was filled with month or two afterward the vision ofthe left eye began to fail, growing less andless as the weeks went by. The tooth wasnot sensitive, but the gum at one side of itseemed painful to pressure. The tooth THE AMERICAN HOMEOPATHIST. 23. was extracted, and the sight was rapidlyrestored. Examination of the toothshowed that, in the filling of it, the thinside wall had been perforated at one point,and a little plug of gold had forced throughit, extending about one-tenth of an inchoutside, and pressed against the wall of thesocket ; and this had set up the reflexneurosis, through the well-known path-ways to the seeing nerve.—Professor Campbell. Olive Oil in Biliary Calculi.—Theonly hope was to evacuate those concretions,and I decided to try olive oil, knowing byactual experience and observation that theoil would soften the calculi so that theywould mash like a boiled pea. The firstdose of the oil was six ounces, and this wasrepeated daily until forty-two ounces hadbeen taken; all this time with no evacuationfrom the bowels. About this time he had a copious and painful stool, remarking thatit seemed like nothing so much as ten-penny nails. He found over one hundredconcretions.—J.
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