Malignant disease of conjunctiva / by Freeland Fergus.

  • Fergus, A. Freeland (Andrew Freeland), 1858-1932.
Date:
[1905?]
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Credit: Malignant disease of conjunctiva / by Freeland Fergus. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Reprinted from 1^ol.XXV of the ‘Ophthalmological Society’s Transactions/] Malignant disease of conjunctiva. By Freeland Fergus, M.D. Case of A. B—, set. 9 years. The case which I wish to record seems to me to be of special interest, both on account of its essential rarity and of its extraordinary malignancy. The patient, a girl, get. 9 years, was sent to my clinic by Dr. Hill, of Carlisle, and was admitted on November 24th, 1903. On examining her, I found that the conjunctiva of the right eye presented an appearance the like of which I had never seen before. The bulbar conjunctiva was covered, especially at its lower aud inner aspects, with sprouting vegetations not at all unlike those which are seen in some cases of severe spring catarrh. They were soft to the touch, pale in colour, and were covered by a frothy mucous discharge. At no part was the limbus cornese involved, nor was the palpebral con¬ junctiva. The history which I got was that the condition began about six months before the patient was sent to me. At this stage I inclined to the opinion that I was dealing with one of the rarer forms of conjunctivitis, and the water-colour sketch, carefully executed by Mr. John Henderson, shows that there was some ground for such a view. A difficulty at once arose, however, when an attempt was made to classify it along with any well- defined form of conjunctivitis. The freedom of the limbus from any complication almost