A case of vesicular keratitis with a filamentous formation of the detached epithelium / by Burton Chance.

  • Chance, Burton Kollock, 1868-1965.
Date:
1906
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Credit: A case of vesicular keratitis with a filamentous formation of the detached epithelium / by Burton Chance. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    patient returned in great discomfort. The cornea was again denuded, while the surrounding recently intact surface was studded with tiny clear vesicles and with what appeared to be the remains of ruptured vesicles. Late in the evening the vesicles appeared in greater number. The cornea was again quite insensitive, and there was a slight pericorneal injection. Before a firm bandage was again applied over the lids an ointment of aristol was smeared over the surface of the cornea. This state continued unchanged for eleven days, when, on February 19th, together with greater pericorneal in- jection, there was an eruption of over thirty vesicles. These vesicles were scattered irregularly over the cornea, being discrete in their arrangement and of equal size, approximating one millimetre in diameter and re- sembling seed pearls. They were not perfectly trans- lucent. On a superficial examination they reminded one of the eruption of sudamina that one sees occasion-