Purulent, croupous or membranous, and diphtheritic conjunctivitis in infants / by Charles Stedman Bull.

  • Bull, Charles Stedman, 1844-1912.
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[1881]
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Credit: Purulent, croupous or membranous, and diphtheritic conjunctivitis in infants / by Charles Stedman Bull. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    many is concerned, all this ought to he changed. However that out to be, it can scarcely he doubted that his doctrines in chronic non-visceral pelvic inflammations, together with use contributions made in this country, by himself and others, to our means of combating those affections, will exert a marked effect upon practice the world over, although, no doubt, that effect may be gradual in its development. After the meteoric brilliancy of Dr, Sims’s earlier achievements, the practical acumen and the comprehensive mental grasp displayed in Dr. Thomas’s great work, and the logical straightforwardness of Dr. Emmet’s doctrines, together with the mechanical ingenuity that stands out in his. Writings—after all these have been duly digested abroad, and when, as is now the case, all these men 'are daily quoted, we may well feel a glow of satisfaction at the influ- ence our countrymen have attained to in gynaecology. The seed planted }>y Ephraim McDowell, trodden under foot as it was at the qufset, has sprung up into a plant which, although slow of growth, now rears a sturdy trunk. Sjjctml Articles. PURULENT, CROUPOUS OR MEMBRANOUS, AND DIPH- THERITIC CONJUNCTIVITIS IN INFANTS A By CHARLES STEDMAN BULL, A. M., M. D. Ophthalmia Neonatorum, or purulent conjunctivitis of infants, lias from early times been recognized as the typical form of suppurative inflammation of the conjunctiva. Owing to the well-known symptoms of the disease, the course which it runs, and the dang’ers which it entails upon the eye, com- paratively little discussion has arisen upon the subject except in regard to two points—the causation of the disease and its prophylaxis. Ihe same can not be said for either membranous or diphtheritic conjunctivitis, though certainly * Galezowski.—“Ann. de Gynec.,” March, 18S1. Abegg.—“Arch. f. Gynak.,” xvii, 3, 1881. Crede.—Ibid., xvii, 1, 1881. Olshausen.—“ Centralbl. f. Gynak., Jan. 22, 1881. Graefe.—Volkmanu’s “Samml. klin. Vortr., No. 1 2.