EyeRounds Online Atlas of Ophthalmology

Contributor:
William Charles Caccamise Sr,MD, Retired Clinical Asst Prof of Ophthal. U.of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry

Category: Systemic Disorders
Diagnosis: smallpox: total blindness resulting from phthisis bulbi OU due to perforating hypopyon ulcers during smallpox attack.

smallpox: total blindness resulting from phthisis bulbi OU due to perforating hypopyon ulcers during smallpox attack.

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One of the greatest accomplishments in the history of medicine if not mankind was the elimination of smallpox from the face of the earth. This was an accomplishment not of ophthalmologists' but of public health physicians' and their associates'. When one has examined hundreds and hundreds of patients blind from smallpox, it is beyond belief that that disease has been absolutely eliminated. The photo demonstrates the prototypical patient irreparably blinded by smallpox.

smallpox: total blindness resulting from phthisis bulbi OU due to perforating hypopyon ulcers during smallpox attack.


smallpox: total blindness resulting from phthisis bulbi OU due to perforating hypopyon ulcers during smallpox attack.


smallpox: total blindness resulting from phthisis bulbi OU due to perforating hypopyon ulcers during smallpox attack.


 

 

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