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Surv Ophthalmol
May 2018
Department of Ophthalmology, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA.
In the early 1820s, a Yorkshire boarding school was devastated by an outbreak of blinding ophthalmia. The cause of the epidemic was-in all likelihood-trachoma, then known as Egyptian ophthalmia. The headmaster of the Yorkshire school, William Shaw, was sued for gross negligence by 2 families whose sons went blind during the outbreak.
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