ACUTE TUBERCULOUS IRITIS

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The condition found in the case here described, although perhaps not uncommon, has apparently not hitherto been recognized. It occurred in a patient who had been blind from retinitis pigmentosa for more than twenty years. In this paper only the changes found in the anterior part of the eye will be described in detail; those found in the fundus had no relation to the tuberculous process and will be dealt with in a separate communication. REPORT OF CASE History. —C. F., a man, aged 64, admitted to the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, April 1, 1928, stated that about three days previously he had begun to have severe pain in the right eye. He had been blind from retinitis pigmentosa for more than twenty years. His general health had usually been good. At the age of 27 he had had a severe attack of pleurisy and since then a number

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