Open AccessTo the treatment of glaucoma with ergotamine. Heim (Klin. Mon. f. Aug., Bd. 79, S. 345)
Author(s) -
V. Roshchin
Publication year - 1928
Publication title -
kazanskij medicinskij žurnal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2587-9359
pISSN - 0368-4814
DOI - 10.17816/kazmj90051
Subject(s) - ergotamine , glaucoma , etiology , medicine , ophthalmology , dermatology , migraine , anesthesia
Believing that one of the etiology of the glaucomatous process is a hyperfunction of the sympathetic, nerve, and knowing that ergotamine has the property to paralyze the end of the latter, the author began to use this agent in glaucoma or as tablets orally (2 tablets 3 times a day), or in combination with infections it under the conjunctiva, and got very encouraging results.