Glasgow Medical Journal Volume 12 baixar o livro de graça

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1879 Excerpt: ... one, the iron it contains is in a state of easy assimilation, and readily made available. If its use be long continued, some of it passes unchanged with the urine. It seems to combine the astringent powers of the iron, but in a minor degree to the sulphate or perchloride, with the antiseptic, antipyretic powers of the salicylic acid; and, in many cases where such a course of treatment is indicated, this addition to our materia medica is worthy of more extended trial. ON A CASE OF MELANOTIC SARCOMA OF THE CONJUNCTIVA AND CORNEA. By T. S. MEIGHAN, M.D., Surgeon to the Glasgow Eye Infirmary. J. B., a tall thin man, aet. 63 years, was admitted to the Glasgow Eye Infirmary in May last. He complained of being very weak, and becoming increasingly weak from the constant pain he suffered in his eye, and all over the right side of his head. A tumour of considerable size was situated on the front of the right eyeball, but more to the temporal side, and protruding from between the lids. Its vertical diameter was over one inch, while horizontally, at its broadest part, it measured fully half an inch, and from before backwards also half an inch. The eyelids were elevated and kept widely open, and in a state of spasmodic contraction which, no doubt, occasioned a good deal of the pain. There was considerable puro-mucous discharge, with lachrymation and excoriation of the margin of the lids. The tumour, which was of a greyishblack colour, was kidney-shaped, lobulated on the surface, firmly fixed to the eyeball, and elastic to the touch. It was found to be attached at the ciliary region on the outer aspect of the eye, overlapping the whole of the cornea except a small corner at the inner side, through which the patient could distinguish light and shade. The eyeball appeared ...