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2 Urt. diuic. fl. 8f fol., humid ophthalmia.
3 Uva Ursi, weakness of sight. Double
4 vision, g. n.
5 Val. sylv., short sight.
6 Verbasci Cashm. rad. cort., epiphora.
7 Hemeralopia.
8 Verbena Lah ., swelling of the eyes. p.
9 Verbena Lah. sen/., hemeralopia. G. N.
10 Veron. Becc., bound across the fore-
11 head in acute inflammation of the
12 eyes, as also in epistaxis. (A Cash-
13 merean family remedy.) n.
14 Vill. nymph., burning and pricking
15 pain in the eyes.
16 Viola od., short sight.
17 Vitex Neg., smoked with tobacco
18 leaves, is said to have restored a
19 blind man to sight.
20 JVarburgii (TT.) anlifebr. troubled sight.
21 Xanthox. arom. cort., specks of the eye.
22 Zed. Cure., hemeralopia.
23 Zinci carb., dimness of sight. $ .
24 Zinci iod. amygd., hemeralopia.
25 Zingib. off., incipient cataract.
26 Zingib. rec. a. cum Coloc. rad., troubled
27 sight.
28 Zyzyph. Juj., inflammation of the eyes
29 with pains in the temples. Specks
30 of the cornea.
31 Zyzyph* Juj. gummi , nebulous sight.
32 As an addenda to the foregoing, I
33 present to my readers the two follow-
34 ing oriental recipes : —
35 Take silver, tin, and zinc, of each
36 four scruples, melt them together,
37 and afterwards pound them finely
38 in a metallic mortar; then add
39 quicksilver four scruples ; mix it
40 intimately with the others, and
41 finally add a scruple and a half of
42 pure opium ; then triturate the
43 whole into an impalpable powder.
44 This dry collyrium is used by several
45 Persian and Hindoo physicians, in ,
46 various chronic disorders of the
47 eye.
48 The following recipe is employed
49 successfully in inflammation of the
50 eyes only : —
51 Take lies (Berber is Lycei succus
52 inspissatus ) and pure opium, of
53 each 15 grains, alum five grains.
54 These three ingredients are to be
55 pulverized and mixed with water in
56 a silver spoon, to the consistency of
57 a syrop. It is then to be placed
58 over a gentle lire until it begins to
59 boil. When cold it is applied at
60 night over the eyelids and parts
61 adjacent, and washed off with warm
62 milk in the morning; the remedy
63 must be repeated for three or four
64 consecutive nights.
65 I have myself, in my earlier prac-
66 tice, employed with success in some
67 particular cases of eye - diseases,
68 the following compositions ; which,
69 for the sake of those, who prefer
70 the old system to the new, I intro-
71 duce, but do not recommend.
72 Take Assafcetida, root of sweet
73 flag (Calamus arom.), fennel seeds,
74 and ginger, of each equal parts,
75 and, with purified honey, make
76 them into an electuary, and take
77 one drachm morning and evening.
78 This effected the cure of a chronic
79 ophthalmia (in a person affected
80 with gout), with which were asso-
81 ciated epiphora, films, and disorder
82 of the stomach.
83 The second remedy consisted of
84 marking nut (Anacard. orient .)
85 prickly-apple seeds (Sem. Datura*
86 Stram.) or, sometimes, instead of
87 the latter, henbane seeds (Sem.
88 Hyoscyami n.) and long-pepper,
89 made with syrop into pills. These