Dinitrophenol and Its Relation to Formation of Cataract
clinical paper · 1942
SUMMARY
Contemporaneous ophthalmological case series documenting bilateral cataracts, in some cases progressing to near-blindness, among individuals who had taken DNP-containing diet pills in the 1930s; among the primary clinical sources establishing the ocular toxicity that, together with hyperthermic deaths, led to the drug's removal from the market.
NOTES
Contemporaneous (1942) peer-reviewed ophthalmological case series documenting the cataract epidemic among 1930s DNP dieters; the direct professional analysis of the marketed effects required for a historical intervention’s evidentiary-failure record.