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SYMPATHETIC INFLAMMATION OF THE EYE

Categories: Diseases of The Eye and Ear

(Sympathetic Ophthalmia.)--A
condition in which the healthy eye becomes the seat of a destructive

inflammation transferred from the other eye which has been the subject of

a similar inflammation usually following a perforating injury of the

eyeball. The injured eye is called the exciting eye; the other, the

sympathetic eye.



This is a rare disease, but it may occur when one eye is injured or

diseased and on the first indication of trouble in the injured eye the

other eye should be closely watched for symptoms of sympathetic trouble so

that if can be removed.



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