This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...case, perhaps as the result of a localized meningitis. Eyes.--In cases of severe scarlet fever, particularly where there is a purulent rhinitis, extension of the inflammation may take place ant J a severe conjunctivitis set up. More often the conjunctivitis that develops is of a mild character, with injection of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...case, perhaps as the result of a localized meningitis. Eyes.--In cases of severe scarlet fever, particularly where there is a purulent rhinitis, extension of the inflammation may take place ant J a severe conjunctivitis set up. More often the conjunctivitis that develops is of a mild character, with injection of the bloodvessels of the sclera and lids, increased lacrymation and photophobia. The lacrymal dud and gland may become involved through the infection that has its origin in a purulent coryza. Through this channel other ocular structures may subsequently be attacked. Primary Keratitis.--Primary keratitis with its unfortunate train of symptoms develops at times, particularly in scrofulous subjects. We recall a corneal ulcer in a colored child, who had previously suffercil from keratitis, in whom perforation with prolapse of the iris occurred. Leichten.stern reports 2 cases of corneal ulcer and 1 of hypopyon keratitis occurring in a severe epidemic in the hospital at Cologne. Thomas quotes Schroter as saying that the cornea may be affected primarily and independently, usually in the way of rapidly progressing abscesses or suppurating ulcers or pernicious keratomalacia, in which the cornea of one or both eyes, without any marked symptoms, becomes turbid in a few (lays, is transformed in its totality into a turbid, dirty, grayishwhite membrane, and exfoliates piecemeal. The inflammatory process may travel thence over the uveal tract and cause a panophthalmitis. Choroiditis.--Choroiditis may, in rare cases, complicate scarlet fever. In the epidemic already alluded to Leichtenstern saw a case of choroiditis which ended in phthisis bulbi. In those cases in which a severe nephritis is present ophthalmoscopic examination may reveal the existence of an albuminu...
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