RT Journal
A1 Zentmayer W
T1 TRachoma in wrestlers
JF Archives of Ophthalmology
JO Archives of Ophthalmology
YR 1934
FD August 1
VO 12
IS 2
SP 234
OP 235
DO 10.1001/archopht.1934.00830150088009
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archopht.1934.00830150088009
AB In the fall of 1930 there was referred to me by Dr. Francis H. Lee of Richmond, Va., a professional wrestler with a badly inflamed right eye. The patient was on a circuit and had first noticed the trouble with his eye while he was in St. Louis about twelve days before his visit to me. He was treated there by an oculist who made a diagnosis of trachoma and prescribed a solution of a copper salt which, from the reaction following its use, the patient thought too strong. From St. Louis he went to Richmond and there saw Dr. Lee who also considered the disease trachoma.When I saw him his eye had all the clinical appearances of a recent severe trachomatous infection. Papillary hypertrophy was marked. The bulbar conjunctiva was unusually congested, owing probably to the instillation of the solution of the copper salt an hour before. The