Affections of the eye from small-pox / by Charles J. Kipp.

  • Charles J. Kipp
Date:
1874
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    attacks but one eye, and commences during the stage of des- iccation. It is not preceded by an eruption of pustules on the lids or on the conjunctiva, nor by keratitis. Its symp- toms are pain in and around the eye, impairment of sight, injection of episcleral vessels, and sometimes discoloration of iris and sluggishness of pupil. Its course is on the whole favorable, and atropine produces speedy relief. Bouchard compares post-variolous iritis to the inflammation of the iris, which is sometimes observed simultaneously with rheumatism in gonorrhoea. The iritis of small-pox rarely manifests itself till after the scabs have fallen off, and is therefore not inappropriately called post-variolous iritis. Leeches to the temple, frequent instillations of a strong solution of sulphate of atropine, and application of cold to the eye, are the means usually employed in this disease. Hypodermic injections of sulphate of morphine are some- times needed to relieve the pain, and in severe cases it may become necessary to administer some form of mercury. Yon Graefe* makes mention also of a case of glaucoma supervening upon hemorrhagic choroiditis, occurring in a patient suffering from hemorrhagic small-pox. Variolous Eetinitis is apparently very seldom met with, as I can find the record of only two cases of this diseasef in the literature of this subject at my disposal. As nothing to the contrary appears in the record, it is to be presumed that the symptoms and the treatment of this form of retinitis do not differ materially from those of idiopathic retinitis. * Arohiv. f. Ophthalmologie, xv. 3, 193.
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