Treatment of Chemical Burns of the Eye with Corvasymton *

THE results of the experimental investigation carried out in the laboratory of the Netherlands Ophthalmic Hospital in Utrecht to test my first clinical findings on the favourable action of " Corvasymton "t in a chemical burn of the eye have already been recorded (Fischer, Hodgson, and Wagenaar, 1950). In view of the favourable result 1 decided to use this drug once again when a patient with a chemical burn should come to me for treatment. Shortly afterwards I had the opportunity of administering Corvasymton in an extremely severe case of calcium oxide corrosion, which I believed at first to stand no chance of recovery.

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