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Report of Three Cases

Harry A. Shearer, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1935;13(3):447-448.

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The following report deals with three cases of infection of the cornea by Bacillus pyocyaneus seen over a twelve day period. The patients came from the shops of a large industrial corporation of the Central West. During the period there were two hundred and forty cases of minor injuries of the eye, all of them similar to those in which the pyocyaneus infection developed. The typical features in each case were: the lodgment of a foreign body in the eye, mild irritation of the conjunctiva with slight blurring of vision, moderate pain, epiphora and photophobia. All of the patients were given the same treatment, namely, removal of the foreign body followed by instillation of 20 per cent mild silver-protein and irrigation with boric acid. In several instances in which the foreign body had been in the eye over a longer period of time and the eye showed definite injection, a . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Beloit, Wis.

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