[Experience with a blood extract in the treatment of corneal lesions (author's transl)]

The effect of Solcoseryl Eye Jelly (a protein-free extract from blood of young calves) was studied in 202 cases of corneal diseases of various etiology. It had an accelerating action on the reepithelization of the cornea after alkali burns, inflammations, injuries (foreign body and contact lenses and in keratoconjunctivitis sicca. The stability of the precorneal film was increased. The tendency toward symblepharon formation after alkali burns was considerably reduced.