Trachoma and the etiology of jequirity ophthalmia / by J. A. Andrews.

  • Andrews, Joseph Andrew.
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[1884]
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    TRACHOMA AND THE ETIOLOGY OF JEQUIRITY OPHTHALMIA* By J. A. ANDREWS, M.D., NEW YORK, MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN OPHTHALMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, OPHTHALMIC SURGEON TO CHARITY HOSPITAL, ETC. THE motive for presenting to this society a paper on a disease so common as trachoma, is furnished by two circumstances, i. e., the recent introduction by Dr. de Wecker of Paris of a new therapeutic agent for the treat- ment of this rebellious affection, and a new view of its etiology advanced by Prof. Sattler of Erlangen. If we may measure the importance of a disease by the frequency with which it is met in practice^ and by the amount of controversy to which it has given rise, then trachoma or granular conjunctivitis deserves a conspicuous place in medical literature. Permit me to say, at the outset, that whatever criti- cisms I may make regarding the histology of the con- junctiva and the tissue changes in granular conjunctivitis, are based upon examinations of eighteen healthy human conjunctivas at ages varying from the time of birth to the thirty-first year, and forty-seven cases of trachoma exam- ined at different periods of the disease during the past six years. The chapter on the etiology of jequirity is the out- * Paper read before the New York County Medical Society, April 28, 1884. Reprinted from the Archives of Medicine, Vol. xi., No. 3, June, 1884.