Abstract

A case is here reported following perforating injury in a man of 67, the eye being removed at the end of eleven weeks after the injury, five weeks after evidences of involvement of the second eye. Fair recovery followed extraction of infected teeth and treatment. Pathologic examination of the exciting eye by Dr. William C. Finnoff of Denver. The essential character of the disease is discussed in detail. Reviewing theories of pathogenesis heretofore put forward, the view is favored, that the condition is not specific, but may be brought about by infection from foci previously established within the body.

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