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E. V. L. BROWN, M.D.; ERNEST E. IRONS, M.D.; S. R. ROSENTHAL, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1942;28(6):1028-1037.

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There is experimental evidence to show that the uveal tract can be sensitized by intraocular injection of protein, so that on later parenteral injection of the same kind of protein a reaction is set up, with redness and exudate in the previously treated eye.

In certain cases of recurrent iritis, in which there is no other demonstrable locus of infection, the administration of tuberculin in appropriate doses gives rise to a local (skin), general and focal (eye) reaction.

It has been assumed that the uveal tract is sensitized to products of the tubercle bacillus, so that it reacts to relatively small amounts of these products when they are formed and liberated within the body or are introduced into it artificially.

If in some way the sensitiveness of the body, including the tissues of the uveal tract, could be reduced, it might be possible to lower the threshold of explosion, so . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Footnotes
Read at the Seventy-Eighth Annual Meeting of the American Ophthalmological Society, Hot Springs, Va., June 1, 1942.

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