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MANAGEMENT OF HERPES SIMPLEX KERATITIS

MANAGEMENT OF HERPES SIMPLEX KERATITIS 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 To the Editor: Years ago there was a prominent surgeon in my hometown who said that he never read the medical literature because it got him all mixed up. He was probably looking into the future and visualizing the present literature on dendritic keratitis. For example, Leopold found idoxuridine (IDU) better than thiomersal in a double-blind, while Luntz and MacCallum "suggested" equal results (in a very small series) with idoxuridine and neomycin; and both groups missed the boat by not using a real placebo such as water. If they had, we would now have a good idea of the spontaneous cure rate in herpetic keratitis. I say "water" because Karnofsky found boric acid effective against one virus.I am sure that we would be interested in the comments of these gentlemen, plus Kaufman, Burns, the California group, Hughes, DeVoe, Allen, etc., on a number of points—insofar as their present knowledge http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archives of Ophthalmology American Medical Association

MANAGEMENT OF HERPES SIMPLEX KERATITIS

Archives of Ophthalmology , Volume 73 (1) – Jan 1, 1965

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Publisher
American Medical Association
Copyright
Copyright © 1965 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved.
ISSN
0003-9950
eISSN
1538-3687
DOI
10.1001/archopht.1965.00970030150034
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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 To the Editor: Years ago there was a prominent surgeon in my hometown who said that he never read the medical literature because it got him all mixed up. He was probably looking into the future and visualizing the present literature on dendritic keratitis. For example, Leopold found idoxuridine (IDU) better than thiomersal in a double-blind, while Luntz and MacCallum "suggested" equal results (in a very small series) with idoxuridine and neomycin; and both groups missed the boat by not using a real placebo such as water. If they had, we would now have a good idea of the spontaneous cure rate in herpetic keratitis. I say "water" because Karnofsky found boric acid effective against one virus.I am sure that we would be interested in the comments of these gentlemen, plus Kaufman, Burns, the California group, Hughes, DeVoe, Allen, etc., on a number of points—insofar as their present knowledge

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Archives of OphthalmologyAmerican Medical Association

Published: Jan 1, 1965

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