Collyria were often moulded into sticks for portability, and liquefied with water, wine, white of egg, &c.
In them were the remains of sticks of collyria which they had contained.
Various collyria employed for the removal of these affections were termed Psorica, and most of them, though not all, contained the metallic compound alluded to.
But again, the same objection holds,—namely, that in none of the collyria Melina of Galen was alum a component ingredient.
Galen speaks of Asclepiades describing in his works a plentiful forest of collyria (collyriorum silva).
Several of the collyria derived, as I have already observed, their designation from some special physical character.
For example, Galen gives several such collyria in succession, as, vol.
The specific appellations of the individualcollyria were derived from different sources.
More stimulatingcollyria will now be necessary, as solutions of sulphate of zinc, copper, acetate of lead, &c.
It must therefore be treated by the daily application of the solid nitrate of silver, applied exactly to its surface; and, in the intervals of application, the use of any collyria may be had recourse to.
The application of cooling collyria and a weak solution of nitrate of silver, will generally suppress the further growth of this gland.
After the discharge is established, the surface of the eye must be kept free of matter, by frequent injection of a bland, tepid fluid; and stimulating or astringent collyria should be applied three or four times a-day.
Various collyria may be employed for this purpose.
Gently stimulating collyria may be injected betwixt the lids, by means of a small syringe.
But, what is more remarkable, Roger, Roland and The Four Masters make no mention of the possibility of surgical interference in these cases, but content themselves with elaborate collyria and ointments, or simply with internal treatment.
Guy de Chauliac suggests that when collyria failed to improve the sight spectacles should be employed.
Most of his collyria had some bile in them, the bile of various kinds of animals and birds being supposed to be progressively more efficient for the cure of external affections of the eye.
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