Southern Medical and Surgical Journal - Georgia Regents University

—780 Dr. 0. C. Gibbs. Summary. [November,was looked at a few days after the opera-results, when the eyetion. This is the solution ; the eye is used far too soon, and bythe action of its own muscles the prolapse is occasioned.The great proof of cicatrization of the cornea is the fulness ofthe anterior chamber. So long as the iris is pressed forwards,and there is not the natural accumulation of aqueous fluid, theeye should be kept closed. A very little attention will enablethe practitioner to decide this point.When the iris is wounded in the operation of extraction, prolapseis very apt to occur under any condition ; hence, Mr."Walton lays it down as a rule, that much pains should be takento prevent the accident. He considers it far better on everyoccasion to finish the operation with the secondary knife ratherthan to complete it with the cataract knife ;when, by so doing,the iris is not at all injured. The late Mr. Alexander, thanwhom there never was a better operator, always made the sectionof the cornea with two knives. As soon as he had effectedthe counter-puncture with Wenzel's knife, he withdrew it, andcompleted the section with the secondary knife. [British Med.Journal, and Nashville Med. Record.[From a valuable summary prepared by Dr.0. C. Gibbs, ofFrewsburg, for the New York Medical MontJily, we select thefollowing several articles.]Iodide of Zinc in Chronic Conjunctivitis.—In the Peninsularand Independent, for August, Dr. Waggoner, of Oconee, 111., hasa short article upon the treatment of chronic conjunctivitis.After correcting the general health, if deranged, he advises theapplication of one-sixteenth of a grain of sulph. morphine, dissolvedin water and applied with a camel's-hair brush, twice aday, until all irritability is allayed. After this follows the curativetreatment, which does not materially differ from that usuallyput in requisition, except that advised in his concluding remarks.He says, "Latterly I have incorporated in my materiathe effects of which have proved satis-This drug is passed over in allour standard works on therapeutics, in almost profound silence.In no case, in which I have observed its effects in the treatmentof ophthalmia, has it deserved, in my humble opinion, a placesecond to any other remedy. In one scrofulous case, it actedmedica the iodide of zinc,factory beyond all anticipation.like a charm. Will not the profession give attention to thisvery deserving agent, and more fully prove its worth ?" TheDr. does not give his formula for use.Congenital Hernia.—In the same number of the Peninsularand Independent, Prof. Moses Gunn, of Detroit, reports a case o