Ophthalmology
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At a recent meeting of the Ophthalmological Society held in Edinburgh,2 Sydney Stephenson read a most instructive paper on the subject of the " spirochaeta pallida in relation to the syphilitic affections of the eye. He prefers to call the organism of Schaudinn by its newer name of treponema pallidum, which organism has now been found in all forms and stages of syphilis, whether acquired or inherited, human or animal. From the ophthalmic point of view the following facts may be stated : (i) The treponema has been found in the apparently healthy eyes of foeiuses and of infants who have died from congenital syphilis ; (2) It has been found in lesions set up experimentally in the eyes of animals by the inoculation of syphilitic material, such as chancres or diseased glands; (3) It has been found in actual syphilitic invasions of the human eye. The conclusion is inevitable, that in the discovery of Schaudinn's oganism we have the strongest possible proof of the syphilitic nature of any given disease of the eye. A point concerning interstitial keratitis may be cleared up by our present knowledge, which has long been a mystery. The
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