LAMELLA

is a small disc composed of gelatine and glycerine, and containing a dose of some drug, which it is intended to insert between the lower eyelid and the eve The Cocaine lamellz of the British Pharmacopeia are valuable for relieving pain when splinters of emery or steel have become embedded in the eyeball. Such an accident is only too common in many factories, and it is a geod plan to insert one of the lamellae, together with a drop of castor oil, into the eye before sending the sufferer to a doctor. [s. 381]