Diseases of the eye / by M. Stephen Mayou.

  • Mayou, M. Stephen.
Date:
1908
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    the blind schools of England; this is a very high proportion, considering that the disease can be entirely prevented and eradicated without injury to the sight if proper prophylactic and other treatment is stringently carried out. Fig. 29.—Gonococci in the discharge from a case of ophthahnia neonatorum. .ffitiology.—The gonococcus is the cause of 60 per cent, of the. cases, and indeed, practically the only cause when the affection is of such severity as to give rise to corneal complications. The other organisms which make up the remaining 40 per cent, are the staphylococcus, bacillus Morax-Axenfeld, and more rarely, bacillus coli communis, strepto- coccus, pneumococcus, bacillus Klebs-Loefiier, and bacillus Koch-Weeks. Infection of the infant's eyes from the vaginal discharge of the mother may take place— 6