The relations of blepharitis ciliaris to ametropia / by D.B. St. John Roosa.

  • Roosa, D. B. St. John (Daniel Bennett St. John), 1838-1908.
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[1878?]
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Credit: The relations of blepharitis ciliaris to ametropia / by D.B. St. John Roosa. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    thp: relations of e%eeh'Aritis ciliaris to AME'l'ROEIA. By O. B. Sx. John Roosa, M.D. At the Fifth International 0|jhthahnological Congress, held in New York in 1876, I read a paper on the above subject, and stated the following conclusions, as those which seemed to me to be deduced from my cases : “ I. Ametropia seems to be the condition of most eyes affected with blepharitis ciliaris. 2. When the blepharitis is associated with errors of refraction, the cure of the edge of the lids is very much facilitated by, and some- times depends upon, correction of the ametropia. 3. Paralysis of the accommodation by the use of atropia will usually, with no other treatment, very much relieve the blepharitis that is associated with ametropia. 4. Patients suffering from blepharitis that is associated with ametropia will often ignore any other affection of the eyes than that of the edge of the lids, and deny that they suffer from asthenopia or conjunctivitis, complaining only of the discomfort and disfigurement produced by the disease ; and this when the error of refraction is so marked that we would naturally expect quite seiious consequences from its non- correction. 5. The form of blepharitis to which my statistics refer is not a mere irritation of the edge of the lids, such as often accompanies a catari hal conjunctivitis, but a true hyper-secretion of the tarsal glands and hair- follicles, with the formation of crusts, and sometimes the develop- ment of ulceration. 6. Hypermetropia is the error of refraction most frequently asso- ciated with blepharitis ciliaris, I have here restated them, because one writer * has not, I think, kept them sufficiently in view in his paper intended as an answer to mine, on the relation of ametropia to blepharitis ciliaris. Since read- ing my own paper I have continued my investigations in this and a cognate subject, and I now beg the indulgence of the Society for a F. C. Hotz, Chicago Medical Journal and E.\aminer, April, 1S78.