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Atropine Paper
Green tissue of salphate of zinc, 20 grains; distilled water, paper imbued with a solution of sulphate of pint; dissolve. An excellent astringent atropia, so that a piece one-fifth of an inch eye-water, in chronic as well as ordinary square contains as much as a drop of a soluophthalmia, as soon as the inflammatory tion 2 grains to 1 ounce of water. The paper symptoms subside; also in weak, lax, wa- is hung up and turned about while drying. A tery, irritable eyes, &c. If there be much piece of the size named will dilate the pupil if pain and irritability, 5 or 6 grains of acetate of morphia, or 2 fluid drachms of wine of opium, may be added. placed on the sclerotic, and the lids closed over it and tied with a handkerchief.