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TREATMENT BY TINTED LENSES

LOUIS LEHRFELD, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1935;13(6):992-1013.

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Bray¹ quoted Duke as having recorded numerous instances in which such allergic manifestations as asthma and urticaria were due apparently to a specific sensitivity to the action of a physical agent, such as heat, cold, light or mechanical irritations.

Ophthalmologists have long recognized that certain patients are sensitive to light ordinarily tolerated by the average normal person. The person with a high degree of myopia frequently complains of the discomfort of reflected sunlight to which the person with hyperopia is tolerant, but frequently persons with normal sight become unusually sensitive to artificial light, the intensity of which is only a small fraction of that of daylight.

Many persons during night driving are disturbed by the lights of cars which are readily tolerated by most automobilists. In the psychopathic person, photophobia to ordinary light frequently develops, whereas the patient with dementia or with cerebrospinal syphilis has a . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Neuro-Ophthalmologist, Wills Eye Hospital, and Ophthalmologist, Philadelphia General Hospital PHILADELPHIA

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