This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...the mother and ophthalmia in the child was a fact recognised by some enlightened observers towards the middle of the eighteenth century, but the view was not generally accepted until much later, when various circumstances conspired to force it upon the attention of the medical profession. For one thing, the analogy ...
Read More
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...the mother and ophthalmia in the child was a fact recognised by some enlightened observers towards the middle of the eighteenth century, but the view was not generally accepted until much later, when various circumstances conspired to force it upon the attention of the medical profession. For one thing, the analogy between adult gonorrhoeal ophthalmia and ophthalmia neonatorum, as regards both the length of incubation and the clinical appearances, led some surgeons very early to surmise that the two represented essentially one and the same disorder. Then, the inoculation of the eyes with gonorrhoeal pus as a method of curing opaque and vascular corneae, first brought forward prominently by F. Jaeger in 1812, showed beyond doubt that the one affection, gonorrhoea, could produce the other, purulent ophthalmia. The experiments of John Vetch in the second decade of the nineteenth century, again, rendered certain the identity of gonorrhoeal ophthalmia and specific urethritis. Later in the century, Vetch's results were confirmed and extended by Piringer, by Pauli, and by Guyomar, who proved, by means of inoculations, the identity of blennorrhoea of the conjunctiva, of the urethra, and of the vagina. In the year 1879 Neisser's discovery of the gonococcus lent a fresh impetus to the study of gonorrhoeal affections, including ophthalmia neonatorum. It was speedily shown that the diplococcus Although the introduction of inoculation is popularly assigned to Jaeger, yet an Englishman may claim priority, at least as regards the principle involved in the method. Henry Walker, writing two years before Jaeger, on the treatment of vascular cornea, said: --" Disappointed by every method hitherto introduced, I endeavoured to make the eye assume the inflammatory action of ...
Read Less
