An epidemic of follicular conjunctivitis in a Liverpool school / by K. Grossmann and M. Loewenthal.

  • Grossmann, Klaus.
Date:
[1902?]
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: An epidemic of follicular conjunctivitis in a Liverpool school / by K. Grossmann and M. Loewenthal. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by UCL Library Services. The original may be consulted at UCL (University College London)

    1/8 (page 47)
    An Epidemic of Follicular Conjunctivitis in a Liverpool School. By K. GiiossMANN,M.D.,F.R.C.S.E., aud M. Loewenthal, M.D., M.RC.P. The following communication describes an epidemic occurrence of follicular conjunctivitis in a Liverpool school. One of us (Dr Loewenthal), who is the medical officer to the school, examined one of the pupil-teachers for some internal complaint, and accidentally found a luxuriant growth of follicles in his con- junctivce. This suggested an examination of the school, which could only be preliminary and fragmentary owing to the holidays beginning just then. From this preliminary examination, how- ever, it was clear that we had to deal with an epidemic of folli- cular conjunctivitis; and this was confirmed when a more com- plete examination of the school was instituted after the holidays. It was then found that out of 720 children, 420 were affected ( = 60 p.c). Before going into statistical details, it will be well to give an account of the salient points of the disease. As the most characteristic feature we find, in conjunction with more or less slight inflammatory symptoms, the occur- rence of small roundish nodules, rising hemispherically out of the surface of the conjunctiva. These nodules are globular or oval, pink or yellow or greyish, or of any transition tint between these three colours, translucent, almost jelly-like in appearance, varying in size from a millet seed to a small pea. Their sur- face is smooth and shining, and they are ranged in two, three, or four parallel rows, especially in the lower conjunctival sac, lying so that the long axis of the oval nodules is parallel to the