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DAVID G. COGAN, M.D.; W. MORTON GRANT, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1945;33(2):106-109.

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We have recently had the opportunity of studying an unusual type of corneal lesion, presumably due to butanol (n-butyl alcohol), which affected a considerable proportion of the workers in a local rubber factory. The only previous report in the literature of ocular disturbances that may have had a similar cause is the description of conjunctivitis in 11 workers, 3 of whom had keratitis, employed in a straw hat factory where butyl alcohol and butyl acetate were used as solvents.¹ Ocular irritation has, however, been recently noted in five local factories in addition to the one here referred to, and a survey of all six outbreaks, showing the relation between butanol concentration in the air and the incidence of ocular irritation will shortly be published by Tabershaw, Fahey and Skinner.²

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The ocular disturbances with which this report is concerned occurred in a plant engaged in making Army . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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From the Howe Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.

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