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In the Sympathizing Eye

Categories: Diseases of The Eye and Ear

There is an inflammation involving the choroid,
ciliary body and iris. There is pain, tenderness, small blocked pupil and

sight is poor.






Course. It usually appears between the third week and the sixth month

after the original injury. "The extreme limits are two weeks and twenty

years." The sound eye is likely to be attacked when the exciting eye is in

a state of active inflammation.



Treatment. The "exciting eye" should be enucleated (taken out) before any

signs of sympathetic inflammation appears in the healthy eye. If it has

appeared, enucleation will be of no value; at all events if there is

vision in the exciting eye, the operation should not be done then.



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