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A NEW EPINEPHRINE OINTMENT

JOSEF D. WEINTRAUB, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1938;19(5):759-761.

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Solution of epinephrine hydrochloride U. S. P. is described as having a strength of 1:1,000, or 0.1 per cent, but not of epinephrine hydrochloride, rather of epinephrine base. For a long time the drug in this concentration has been instilled into the eye; it has been used therapeutically to relieve congestion and the attending symptoms in various superficial conjunctival conditions, and diagnostically to blanch the surface vessels and thus render more apparent a suspected deeper perikeratic or ciliary flush or injection. Since 1913 it has been injected subconjunctivally.¹ Since 1925 it has been used on pledgets of cotton placed in the conjunctival sac.²

When, in 1931, there was described the use of a stronger solution of epinephrine³ to dilate the pupil, to distend and break iridolenticular synechiae and to reduce the tension in cases of glaucoma, this same principle of designating strength was . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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