Clinical studies on diseases of the eye including those of the conjunctiva, cornea, sclerotic, iris, and ciliary body . t thedisease is contagious, and that it can be communicated not onlyby means of tangible but through the air also ; of course, under certain conditions, which will be considered hereafter. The affection of many individuals at the same time or at shortintervals cannot be explained by the state of the atmosphere, itsg re of moisture, temperature or impurities, as in catarrhalophthalr. e other persons outside of these corporations would necessarily also be affected Neither can t
Clinical studies on diseases of the eye including those of the conjunctiva, cornea, sclerotic, iris, and ciliary body . t thedisease is contagious, and that it can be communicated not onlyby means of tangible but through the air also ; of course, under certain conditions, which will be considered hereafter. The affection of many individuals at the same time or at shortintervals cannot be explained by the state of the atmosphere, itsg re of moisture, temperature or impurities, as in catarrhalophthalr. e other persons outside of these corporations would necessarily also be affected Neither can the particularmode of living of one or another of these corporations be gas the sole cause for the great number of this diser. tary surgeons who have laid so much stress on the clothes, the the drilling, the biv and the life in barr and still do to some extent, have probably failed to notice that thesame tuently and with as much virulence among other bodies of men. whose manner of living is entirelydiffer th the exception of living indoors in small or 1 Cari Ferd. I epidcmisch-contagiasc Augenblennorrhoe .tgvpteus,. BLENNORRHCBAL CONJUNCTIVITIS. 51 crowded rooms, and who are not exposed to any of the hurtful influences enumerated above. We may recall the repviolent outbreak of this ophthalmia in the penitentiary of Brau-weiler, which Ph. Walther1 has described; to its occurrence inthe Dublin penitentiary, as related by Kirkpatrick,2 where, from1849 to 1854 alone, 134,838 persons were affected, and to thevery numerous cases among foundlings (from five to ten yreaiage;, at Prague, in 1848, which are described in Von Arlts Manual of Diseases of the Eye. We should also rememberthat this ophthalmia has been observed as formidably, or evenmore so, on board ships as on land ; and that it was not duringthe fatiguing marches that the disease has been most frequentlyobserved among soldiers, but during the time when they werequartered in relatively small rooms; and whole divisions of thear
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