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E. S. PALMERTON, M.D.

AMA Arch Ophthalmol. 1956;55(2):186-187.

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In the past year I have seen four patients who have had vegetable spines or bracts lodged in the conjunctival sac, with marked symptoms of scratching, lacrimation, etc., which characterize a sharp foreign body rubbing on the cornea.¹

These tiny bracts have barbs on them and tend to stick firmly in the conjunctival aspect of the eyelid. Being vegetable matter, they are very hard to see. By accident I found a way to visualize them more easily, and I felt this information worth passing on.

The first case of this sort was relieved when I finally, with difficulty, located the foreign body with the use of the slit lamp. I was able to remove it with fine forceps. In the second case I failed to see the foreign body on everting the lid, using a loupe and a good light. Looking again, I everted the upper lid with a . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Rapid City, S. D.

Footnotes
Received for publication Nov. 30, 1955.

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