ON THE CONJUNCTIVITIS LEPROSA IN THE MACULA TUBERCULOID

Abstract

Author has seen some ten cases of conjunctivitis acuta or subacuta, caused by the macula tuberculoid, affecting the palpeblar skin, during his ten years' service in leprosarii as an ophthalmologist.
Recently, he had the opportunlty to excise the tissue at the conjunctival fornix by two such cases.
Microscopical examination revealed that the change was just the tuberculoid one, containing infiltration of lymphocytes, epitheloid cells and Langhan's giant cells, with a few leprosy bacilli in the nerve ending.
Comparing microscopically the changes of the skin and the conjunktiva on the same macula tuberculoid patent with conjunctivitis, the cell compornent is corresponding each other.
Author names it as "Conjunctivitis leprosa maculo tuberculoidea."
Additionally, it is instructive to deem that, contrary to the said fact, it is seldom to see conjunctivitis in nodular (C) leprosy, though more or less foamy cell inhration is almost always seen in the conjunctive tissue. It exactly shows the difference of the nature of the both kinds of the infiltration, which divides fundamentary these two types in leprosy.