Identifier: transactionsoph11ameruoft (find matches)
Title: Transactions
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: American Ophthalmological Society
Subjects: Ophthalmology
Publisher: New York (etc.)
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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Fig. I. — June i, 1905
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Fig 2. — Jan. 17, 1906. Carpenter: Keratitis in Acquired Syphilis. 591 Case 2. S. X.. male, aged 39: primary lesion February i,1892, followed by unusually severe secondaries; gumma of ciliarybody which perforated the sclera and necessitated enucleation; de-structive uveal inflammation in the remaining eye terminating insecondary cataract, which was successfully removed, giving fairlyuseful vision; recurring attacks of uveitis over a long period ofyears, until in 1901, or nine years after the initial lesion, he had asevere parenchymatous keratitis marked by a peripheral ring-shaped area of deep infiltration, showing a tendency to super-ficial ulceration in different spots. After several recurrencesthere finally appeared, about eleven years after the chancre, asharp, well-marked attack of diffuse interstitial keratitis withpronounced vascularization, which yielded to the active adminis-tration of mercury and iodides in about two months. Within afew months the patient died of cerebral

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