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Proceedings of the All-India Ophthalmological Society.

Proceedings of the All-India Ophthalmological Society. This article is only available in the PDF format. Download the PDF to view the article, as well as its associated figures and tables. Abstract This volume opens with the report of a symposium on nutritional disorders of the eye. The first paper, entitled "Eye Diseases Due to Improper Diet," by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir J. N. Duggan and B. P. Nanavati, gives an excellent summary of ocular disorders due to lack of vitamins A, B, C and D, as well as disorders due to a dietary excess of carbohydrate and contamination of food and gout and rheumatism. Other papers of the symposium are concerned with malnutrition, xerophthalmia, keratomalacia, night blindness and the ocular disorders of diabetes. In his paper entitled "A Short History of the Incidence of Glaucoma in Bengal" Captain S. C. Dutt notes that the established signs and symptoms of glaucoma associated with epidemic dropsy (Bengal glaucoma) are: (1) a high intra-ocular tension averaging from 70 to 100 mm.; (2) a normal or a deep anterior chamber; (3) absence of pain; (4) absence http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archives of Ophthalmology American Medical Association

Proceedings of the All-India Ophthalmological Society.

Archives of Ophthalmology , Volume 16 (5) – Nov 1, 1936

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American Medical Association
Copyright
Copyright © 1936 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved.
ISSN
0003-9950
eISSN
1538-3687
DOI
10.1001/archopht.1936.00840230187018
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Abstract

This article is only available in the PDF format. Download the PDF to view the article, as well as its associated figures and tables. Abstract This volume opens with the report of a symposium on nutritional disorders of the eye. The first paper, entitled "Eye Diseases Due to Improper Diet," by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir J. N. Duggan and B. P. Nanavati, gives an excellent summary of ocular disorders due to lack of vitamins A, B, C and D, as well as disorders due to a dietary excess of carbohydrate and contamination of food and gout and rheumatism. Other papers of the symposium are concerned with malnutrition, xerophthalmia, keratomalacia, night blindness and the ocular disorders of diabetes. In his paper entitled "A Short History of the Incidence of Glaucoma in Bengal" Captain S. C. Dutt notes that the established signs and symptoms of glaucoma associated with epidemic dropsy (Bengal glaucoma) are: (1) a high intra-ocular tension averaging from 70 to 100 mm.; (2) a normal or a deep anterior chamber; (3) absence of pain; (4) absence

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Archives of OphthalmologyAmerican Medical Association

Published: Nov 1, 1936

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