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child, six years old, a girl of scrofulous constitution, had suffered
for a long time from an ulcer on the right great toe, which had
been healed up for ten months; she had besides, a cicatrix, resulting
from the suppuration of glands on the neck and lower jaw. Seven
months after the healing of the ulcer she was attacked with inflammation
of the eyes, which had been already treated unsuccessfully for four
months by a celebrated oculist. The principle symptom of the diease
were photophobia of considerable intensity of both eyes, with which
were associated, particulaly in the left eye, redness of the sclerotic,
dimness of the cornea, swelling and redness of the eyelids, great
increase of the secretion of mucus and tears, besides these, flow
of an acid mucus from the nose, and an eruption of small and large
pustules on the right cheek. The appetite was bad, the sleep restless.
On account of the glandular affection, and of the photophobia, which
was the principal symptom as regarded the eyes, indeed the only
sympton of the right eye,
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