This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... LECTURE XXVI. Summary. Ocular massage employed from very ancient times in the treatment of trachoma and keratitis.--Rotatory massage--radial massage--vibratory massage--pressure massage--Mechanical action upon the cornea, conjunctiva, crystalline system, and intraocular fluids; physiological action ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... LECTURE XXVI. Summary. Ocular massage employed from very ancient times in the treatment of trachoma and keratitis.--Rotatory massage--radial massage--vibratory massage--pressure massage--Mechanical action upon the cornea, conjunctiva, crystalline system, and intraocular fluids; physiological action upon the ciliary muscle and the nutrition of the tissues.--Applications: accommodative asthenopia, amblyopia ex anopsia, myopia, hypermetropia, glaucoma, ophthalmic migraine, etc. From the most ancient times Massage has been used in certain ocular affections, a practice continued to the present day in an absolutely empirical manner. Conjunctival massage has been lauded in various diseases of the conjunctiva, especially in trachoma. It would occupy too much space to enumerate all the procedures that have been followed from the times of Hippocrates to the present day. Corneal massage, simple or medicamentous, has been employed particularly in the treatment of leucomata, diffuse corneal infiltrations, receding parenchymatous keratitis, and even in episcleritis and spring catarrh. In some forms of tuberculosis affecting the cornea and the iris Dr. Abadie has suggested that direct massage of the cornea should be carried out by means of iodoform and lanolin. Personally, I have obtained good results from massage with mercurial lanolin in diffuse corneal infiltrations, in slight forms of parenchymatous keratitis, and, above all, in spring catarrh with pericorneal growths. Massage with calomel, sugar, etc., has furnished its proofs for a long time in the treatment of leucomata of the cornea. If we see what modern literature has said about massage we find at the London Congress in 1872 a communication by Donders, who praises massage in affections of...
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