Nearly all these cases are curable with from one week to six weeks
treatment. Of course the treatment must be intelligently directed after
a correct diagnosis as to the cause. The cause can usually be removed.
One case to which my attention has been directed was that of a woman
about forty years of age who had very severe pains. With all the local
treatment of the eye and otherwise she got practically no results
until she had replacement of the uterus, which brought immediate
relief. Other cases have no trouble on that kind but have lesions of
the cervical region and on correction of these lesions the neuralgia
disappears. Other cases have had the nasopharynx cleaned out by the
finger operation and the stretching of the soft palate which relieved
the neuralgia immediately or in a few days. Numbers of cases have been
to medical physicians and had various eye remedies administered locally
with no permanent benefit. Of course the treatment was administered at
the wrong place.
The ramifications of the sympathetic and fifth cranial nerves are so
complex and far-reaching that we must keep in mind that one or more of
many causes for the trouble may exist and be quite remote from the seat
of the pain.
Diseases of the Eyelids
Occasional factors are bee stings or insect bites, which completely
occlude the palpebral fissure. We may have some palpebral edema from
lid abscesses, chalazion, hordeolum, dacryocystitis, panophthalmia and
so forth. In =hemorrhagia subdermalis= there is so much spongy tissue
beneath the skin about the eye that the blood extends easily and far.
The red tint will soon change to a reddish blue and then become dark,
what is known as a black eye (ecchymosis). This frequently results
from a blow. The skin is sharply attached around the orbital margin by
tense connective tissue so the area of the hemorrhage is limited to the
region of the orbit. There may be spontaneous rupture of some of the
vessels by hard sneezing or coughing, especially in young children.
In older people it may indicate a fragile condition of the vessels,
arteriosclerosis or some trouble with the kidneys. The diagnosis of the
eye condition is not difficult but the cause of the hemorrhage in that
region might be investigated further. Local treatment is of some value
in these conditions. They may be soothed by cold compresses. In bee
stings and insect bites use an alkaline compress. Manipulation about
the eye and osteopathic treatment of the neck with a view to directing
a better circulation to that region will aid much.
Herpes Zoster Ophthalmia
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