Eye injuries and their treatment . ed gelatine plate, which was inoculated from the conjunctivalsac of a house physician in a general hospital who had recently returnedfrom a holiday and was in the best of health, with a conjunctiva apparentlyquite normal at the time of inoculation, and which remained normalwithout washing out after the culture had been made. Numerous colonies are seen :(i) A colony of staphylococcics aureus. (2) A colony of a large white coccus frequently found in air, and non-pathogenic. (3) Numerous colonies of the so-called ??Xerosis Bacillus (4) One colony of a red yeast.
Eye injuries and their treatment . ed gelatine plate, which was inoculated from the conjunctivalsac of a house physician in a general hospital who had recently returnedfrom a holiday and was in the best of health, with a conjunctiva apparentlyquite normal at the time of inoculation, and which remained normalwithout washing out after the culture had been made. Numerous colonies are seen :(i) A colony of staphylococcics aureus. (2) A colony of a large white coccus frequently found in air, and non-pathogenic. (3) Numerous colonies of the so-called ??Xerosis Bacillus (4) One colony of a red yeast. (5) One colony of a brown mould. B. Film of the Xerosis Bacillus stained with methylene blue. C. Film of the large air-coccus, which tends to appear as a diplococcus,stained with methylene blue. D. Film of the red yeast, stained with Fuchsin. E. Film of the staphylococcus aureus stained with Fuchsin. I have to thank Dr. J. Campbell MClure for making the culture anddrawing the plate. PLATE II. S ? 9 «>>. **. • 0. ©. ® .* ?* • *.:.,• lit, » 1 • •. E. INTRODUCTORY 9 community. All experience teaches that the greatestanxiety arises, in most instances, not from the actualphysical damage, but from infection of the wound ; andso in each case the diminution, or prevention, of sepsisought to be the guiding therapeutic principle. Suchtreatment is now, thanks to the researches of Pasteurand their practical application by Lister and his fol-lowers, a very simple matter, but it must never beforgotten that it has, in dealing with the eye, to becarried on under conditions peculiar to that specialorgan. The conjunctival sac probably always containsgerms which are, or may rapidly become, pathogenic(Plate II.), and if by chance it is at any time sweptclear of microbes it is speedily re-invaded through thetear passages by bacteria which come from the nasalcavities and their adjoining sinuses. To destroy thesegerms is practically impossible. It was natural to thinkof dea
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