The Ocular Complications of Epidemic Dropsy
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The main ocular complication of epidemic dropsy is glaucoma of the primary non-inflammatory type, and the eye remains quite white even in cases in which the tension is extremely high. Formerly it was thought that the increased intraocular tension was a late manifestation of the general disease, but in the outbreaks in 1932, 1933, 1934 and 1935 many cases of this type of glaucoma were seen with slight or no other general signs of the disease. In the latter category, some gave a history of having contracted the disease in a previous epidemic, but, on the other hand, a number gave a negative history of any other signs or symptoms of the disease, so that in some cases the toxins
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