On the relative value of atropine and of mercury in the treatment of acute iritis / by T. Pridgin Teale, Junr.

  • Teale, T. Pridgin (Thomas Pridgin), 1831-1923.
Date:
[cbetween 1800 and 1899?]
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    IReprinted from the Royal London Ophthabnic Hospi0L^ Reports.'] y-y ON THE RELATIVE VALUE OP ATROPINE AND OF MERCURY IN THE TREATMENT OF ACUTE IRITIS. During the last two years and a-half I have recorded in a tabular form the cases of acute iritis which have come under my- care, in order to test the value of certain views of treatment which I had arrived at from the observation of such cases previously to this period. The exactness of the results is so marked, and the sequence of events so definite, that I feel justified in relating the cases to the profession, and in deducing fi'om them certain principles of treatment, which, if not new, may at any rate not be generally known or acted upon in medical practice. The table on which these remarks are founded includes all the cases of iritis, as hereafter limited, which have come under my care during the period referred to, with the ex- ception of four or five in which I was unable to take notes regularly, or in which the treatment could not be thoroughly carried out. These excepted cases include, as far as I can recollect, only one case of severity which was complicated by infiltration of cornea, and possibly by hereditary taint. Whether the cases are a fair representation of such as ordinaiily come before the ophthalmic surgeon, or are ex- ceptionally slight, I cannot presume to say, but such as they are they represent faithfully my own experience. In speaking of iritis in this paper I exclude from con- sideration all cases of traumatic origin, all those which are secondary, i.e., caused by extensive adliesions of the iris to the capsule of the lens left by previous attacks, all. subacute fonns travelling forwards to the ms from the deeper structures, and all cases occurring in children. By T. Pridgin Tealb, Junr., M.A Surgeon to the General Injinnary at Leeds.