. A treatise on diseases of the eye . lue. The nasal and pharyngeal mucous membrane should be examinedand, if necessary, treated. Adenoids and hypertrophied tonsils frecpientlyaccompany this disease; they should receive proper attention. Staphylococcic Conjunctivitis.—It is the opinion of a number of inves-tigators that j)rimary staphylococcic conjunctivitis seldom occurs, butthat in suitable cases in which the conjunctiva has been prepared byprevious irritation, mechanical or otherwise, a mild conjunctivitismay be produced by the Stai)hylococcus aureus. The fre(|uent asso-ciation of this micr
. A treatise on diseases of the eye . lue. The nasal and pharyngeal mucous membrane should be examinedand, if necessary, treated. Adenoids and hypertrophied tonsils frecpientlyaccompany this disease; they should receive proper attention. Staphylococcic Conjunctivitis.—It is the opinion of a number of inves-tigators that j)rimary staphylococcic conjunctivitis seldom occurs, butthat in suitable cases in which the conjunctiva has been prepared byprevious irritation, mechanical or otherwise, a mild conjunctivitismay be produced by the Stai)hylococcus aureus. The fre(|uent asso-ciation of this microorganism with diphtheria of the conjunctiva, gono- 246 TtiE CONJUNCTIVA coccic conjunctivitis, and membranous conjunctivitis, points to a sec-ondary or mixed infection, and usually means an increase in severity. Treaiment.—^l^he treatment of forms of conjunctivitis in which theStaphylococcus pyoijenes aureus is found is like that for simple conjunc-tivitis or that of tiie disease in which it occurs as a mixed infection. Fig. 149. Sfaphylopoicus pyogenes aureus. (Posey and Wright.) Tuberculosis of the Conjunctiva.—This may be primary or secondary:})riniaiy when it originates in the conjunctiva itself, and secondary whenit proceeds from some tuberculous focus in other j)arts of the body. Inprimary tuberculosis of the conjunctiva the tubercle bacilli enter theconjunctival tissue through wounds of the conjunctiva, sometimes due tooperative procedure. According to ^alude, tubercle bacilli cannotpenetrate the intact epithelial layei. Etiology. Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Koch). Forms.—Ihere are two forms of onset: (1) The acute form, which ispeculiar to primary infection, followed by the development of miliarytubercles; and (2) the subacute form, observed in the extension oftuberculous infection from contiguous tissues. Acute Fokm.—In the first form of onset, within a week or ten daysafter the entrance of the bacilli, the conjunctiva in the vicinity of theplace of entrance
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