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A REVIEW OF ITS PROBABLE IMPORT; PRELIMINARY REPORT

ISADORE GIVNER, M.D.; CATHERINE F. GANNON, M.A.

Arch Ophthal. 1938;19(6):941-946.

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The constantly increasing therapeutic use of magnesium salts, particularly in the United States, makes one consider whether or not harmful effects on the eye can be produced. Burge¹ had shown that the magnesium content of cataracts removed in this country was five times that of cataracts removed in India.

The possibility of a relation of intake of magnesium to pathologic changes in the lens was suggested by the following case:

R. K., a housewife aged 49, was first seen on Dec. 4, 1935, complaining of failing vision in each eye for the past year.

Examination disclosed soft mature cataracts, with good light projection. A search into all possible etiologic factors, which were present at the time or which may have existed in the formative period, failed to disclose any of a dietary, hereditary, metabolic, endocrinologic or toxic nature.

Three years previously, at a time when from the patient's . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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NEW YORK

From the Ophthalmological Service of Dr. Webb W. Weeks, the Bellevue Hospital.

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