Identifier: clevelandmedical08clev (find matches)
Title: The Cleveland medical journal
Year: 1909 (1900s)
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Subjects: Medicine Medicine
Publisher: Cleveland : The Cleveland Medical Journal Company
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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that later there may occur an atrophy of thetarsus also. Fehr gives an illustration of his case and says that VonGraefe operated upon one previous to Fuchs publication. Fuchs tried to relieve the condition by injecting under theskin alcohol and tincture of iodin to create a sclerosis, but with-out much success. He advises excision of an elliptical piece of Laffer—Blepharochalasis 133 the integument and suture of the edges of the wound. This hasbeen done successfully by Von Graefe, Fuchs and Hirschberg,the patient presenting a perfectly normal appearance after theoperation. A review of the literature fails to show any case withinvolvement of the lip, such as my patient presents, but other-wise his condition is classical. This patient, N. P., a Hebrew, aged 12 years, is a schoolboy. Family History: Father and mother are living and well, and neverhad any symptoms comparable with that of the patient, except that bothare inclined to be fat. He has three brothers and five sisters all very
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Blepharochalasis involving also the upper lip in a boy aged 12. healthy. One child died in infancy of convulsions. There is no history of neuropathic taint in the family, except that the mother lias a slight nervousness of indefinite nature. There is no tuberculosis or otherhereditary disease in the family. Personal History: Patient has never had any severe illness, injury,or operation, and in fact up until the present trouble began he was aperfectly normal and healthy child. He gets along well in school and haspassed his examinations ever)- year. Present Trouble: This began three years ago. and developed with acold and sore throat. His physician at that time said it was a quinsy 134 The Cleveland Medical Journal sore throat, but it lasted only three or four days and his mother thinksit was too mild to have been quinsy. With the onset of the sore throat bothupper eyelids became swollen, and since then have remained, without anychange whatsoever, the same as they are at present. The skclevelandmedical08clev

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