SOME CASES OF VERNAL CATARRH.

Infectious Catarrh of Mice

A natural outbreak of an infectious catarrh in a colony of Swiss mice is reported. The disease was generally characterized by a peculiar chattering sound during life and by a rhinitis, an otitis media, and a pneumonia at autopsy. The pneumonia was slowly progressive and terminated fatally in a high percentage of cases. The mortality in a group of 75 naturally infected mice was 95 per cent over ...

Senile Uterine Catarrh

The Rational Treatment of Catarrh

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Extrinsic and idiopathic vernal keratoconjunctivitis? Two cases with dissimilar immunopathology.

Two clinically similar cases of vernal keratoconjunctivitis with dissimilar immunological data are reported. One patient had strikingly elevated IgE levels in both serum and tears, and his tear fluid contained specific IgE antibodies to a number of allergens. Conjunctival scrapings and peripheral blood samples showed marked eosinophilic reactions. The other patient showed normal values for tear...

Incidence of keratoconus in spring catarrh.

Five hundred and thirty cases of spring catarrh were studied at the Department of Ophthalmology, Khyber Hospital Peshawar, Pakistan. Corneal complications occurred in 259 patients, of which 48 cases were of keratoconus, consisting of 41 male and seven female patients. Most of the patients affected (37) were between the ages of 10 and 30 years. Six patients developed acute hydrops, which in one ...