RT Journal
A1 GIFFORD HH
T1 THe prophylaxis of interstitial keratitis
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD July 3
VO LIII
IS 1
SP 22
OP 26
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.92550010014002e
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.92550010014002e
AB Considering the great interest to the oculist of interstitial keratitis, the question of its prophylaxis has received very shabby treatment. While it may be discussed in some of the numerous works that I have not seen, I have found no mention of it in any of the dozen English, German, and French text-books and hand-books that I have consulted. The nearest approach to a discussion of the subject that I have seen is in a valuable paper by C. S. Bull, in which the conclusions of Fournier as to the prophylaxis of hereditary syphilis in general are quoted. And yet the subject is one which should receive careful consideration, by the oculist and syphilologist as well as by the general physician.By interstitial keratitis, in this paper, I refer only to the typical form, which occurs almost always between the ages of three and sixteen