MEDICAL TREATMENT OF ACUTE GLAUCOMA

摘要: It is certainly a curious, but explicable, fact that by living constantly in the presence of difficulty man becomes less apt to overcome it. —Prof. Dr. Charles Nicolle. 1 SELDOM do oculists encounter exercise their profession more dramatic scene than an acute attack glaucoma. Within few minutes, sometimes quite suddenly, patient stricken with violent pain one eye, which radiates toward ear, teeth and all over head may reach intolerable pitch. He loses sleep appetite frequently subject nausea, or even vomiting, fever. Sometimes, owing intensity pain, he consciousness. At same time visual power fails rapidly some cases disappears completely hours. In other perceives lights as though through fog surrounded rainbow-colored rings. On