Primary Vaccinia of the Eyelid

ALTHOUGH vaccinia of the eye is an uncommon condition, over 200 cases had been recorded by 1940, and several additional cases have since been described, the most recent of which are those of King and Robie (1951) and Kline (1951). Very few of these publications have appeared in the British literature and Atkinson and Scullard (1940), who collected 91 cases between 1919 and 1940, do not record one from a British journal. We are recording this case because of its unusual mode of infection, and because it is, as far as we are aware, the first occasion in which a vaccinial lesion has been treated with chloramphenicol.