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Identifier: transactionsoph13ameruoft (find matches)
Title: Transactions
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: American Ophthalmological Society
Subjects: Ophthalmology
Publisher: New York (etc.)
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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of the nasal fossa, no one even suspected thepurulent condition of the posterior ethmoidal cells shown bythe autopsy. AMBLYOPIA FROM INHALATION OF METHYLALCOHOL. HENRY H. TYSON, M.D., New York. Although thirteen cases of methyl alcohol amblyopia frominhalation have been reported in the literature, they arenot so common that a report of three additional cases maynot be of some interest, as it may help to recall attentionanew to its toxicity, and especially on account of the inter-esting visual fields, as I found no similar fields recorded.Of the thirteen reported cases (eleven by Buller and Wood*and two recently by Gruening), eight were varnishers usingshellac dissolved in wood alcohol, and the cases in the follow-ing report come under the same classification. Case L—Mr. G. K., aged twenty-one, painter and var-nisher. No history of syphilis, rheumatism, tuberculosis, or * Trans. Sect, on Ophthal, Amer. Med. Assoc, 1904, p. 412. Tyson: Amblyopia from Inhalation of Methyl Alcohol. 147
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