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James C., aged 39, a Negro barber, applied at the Harlem Eye and Ear Hospital on Sept. 23, 1931, for treatment of the left eye. There was marked, deep swelling over the left eye, slight exophthalmos, an injected cornea and conjunctiva and no pain. The Wassermann test was 4 plus. The vision was 20/25 in the right eye and 20/40 in the left.
According to the history, on August 21, while lying on a cot beside a closed window, sleepless from heat, the patient determined to open the window. He sat up, forgetting the mantle shelf which extended partly over the bed, and struck his head against the shelf corner with such force that he fell back unconscious. When he came to, at about 5 o'clock, "everything was blood soaked" and he was bleeding from a deep wound "below the eye." He was taken to