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PHILLIPS THYGESON, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1941;25(2):217-227.

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The virus disease known as inclusion conjunctivitis or inclusion blennorrhea is an etiologic entity which appears in the newborn infant typically as severe papillary conjunctivitis and in the adult as follicular conjunctivitis with acute or subacute onset. The disease, whether in the adult or in the newborn infant, heals spontaneously after running a course of at least several months. In my series of 52 cases the conjunctiva has never returned to normal in less than three months and has required from four to five months in the majority of cases. In a few cases the condition has persisted more than one year, and in 1 adult it lasted more than two years. The use of the usual conjunctival antiseptics, such as silver nitrate, mercurochrome, phenylmercuric nitrate, mercury oxycyanide, zinc sulfate and quinine bisulfate, which have been employed with success in the treatment of bacterial conjunctivitis, failed to shorten the course. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the Department of Ophthalmology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, and the Institute of Ophthalmology, Presbyterian Hospital.

Footnotes
Aided by a grant from the Francis I. and Elizabeth C. Proctor Fund.

Read at the Seventy-Sixth Annual Meeting of the American Ophthalmological Society, Hot Springs, Va., June 3, 1940.

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