On 4 November 1849, when Blackwell was treating an infant with ophthalmia neonatorum, she spurted some contaminated solution into her own eye accidentally, and contracted the infection.
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His work with sympathetic ophthalmia and the lacrimal system were published in the second edition of the Saemisch textbook of ophthalmology-" Handbuch der gesamten Augenheilkunde ".
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However, this procedure is extremely rare, and current reports indicate that only one soldier in OIF has undergone enucleation in a tertiary care facility to prevent sympathetic ophthalmia.
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In agony, the young boy suffered for weeks as the wound became severely infected; an infection which then spread to his other eye, likely due to sympathetic ophthalmia.
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Returning to London, he was diagnosed with the eye disease ophthalmia, which is said to have resulted in additional health problems that plagued him for much of his life.
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Ophthalmia neonatorum due to gonococci ( " Neisseria gonorrhoeae " ) typically manifests in the first five days post birth and is associated with marked bilateral purulent discharge and local inflammation.
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In 1773, the same year that he survived the ship sinking, Rushton was sailing to Dominica with human cargo when a highly contagious outbreak of ophthalmia struck many of the slaves.
In the event that a victim of globe penetrating trauma cannot perceive any light within two weeks of surgical intervention, the ophthalmologist may choose to enucleate as a preventative measure against sympathetic ophthalmia.
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As he aged he contracted ophthalmia, becoming blind around 195 BC . Losing the ability to read and to observe nature plagued and depressed him, leading him to voluntarily starve himself to death.
