GLYCEROL TRINITRATE (nitroglycerine) IN THE TREATMENT OF HEMERALOPIA (night-blindness)

Observations on Hemeralopia, or Night Blindness

The Treatment of Night Blindness

The eye is cocainised as for cataract operationWith the usual aseptic precautions i c.c. of sterile 10 per cent, salt solution is injected subconjunctival^ ?n each side. Puncture of the conjunctival vessels js avoided. The eyes are bandaged. The bandage! lS removed at night, when to the satisfaction of both the doctor and the patient night blindness will be found to have disappeared. There is p...

The Treatment of Night-Blindness

The readers of this Gazette ma}7 remember that attention was called in June to the extract made by Major F. P. Maynard, I.M.S., in our Current Literature Columns (June, p. 234) on the treatment of cases of night-blindness by ingestion of liver. The case in favour of the liver treatment seemed so clear that I determined to try it on the first opportunity, and the following cases are here publish...

Glycerol trinitrate

Trinitrate (Nitroglycerine) on Raynaud's Disease and Raynaud's Phenomenon

The authors investigated the effect of repeated inunction with 2 per cent glyceryl trinitrate in lanolin on the blood flow and skin temperature of the extremities in 14 cases of Raynaud's disease and in 8 cases in which Raynaud's phenomenon was associated with such vascular diseases as acrosclerosis (3 cases), chronic occlusive disease of the arteries (3 cases), occupational disease of the arte...