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seemingly ineffectual, cases of indefinite etiology rheumatic, meta- 

 bolic, etc. It is for this group that Veach considered nonspecific 

 therapy of utmost usefulness. 



Veach produced experimental iritis by injecting streptococci, both 

 viridans and hemolyticus, and staphylococcus aureus into the iris of 

 rabbits. These were then treated with intramuscular milk injections. 

 The course of the disease in the treated rabbits was definitely short- 

 ened as compared to rabbits similarly infected but not treated with 

 milk. Veach considers the experimental results sufficiently encourag- 

 ing to warrant the use of this nonspecific method of therapy in clini- 

 cal practice in all cases of iritis of uncertain origin. 



Stocker, instead of injecting milk intramuscularly in eye cases, 

 has used it intraperitoneally. The method as used by him consists 

 of injecting from 3 to 12 gm. of cow's milk (boiled for three or four 

 minutes) into the peritoneal cavity. A fever that persists for from 

 two to three days results. His results in eye cases have been very 

 good. 



Musy pasteurizes milk for 15 minutes and injects 5 c.c. intra- 

 gluteally every 2 to 4 days. He was amazed to observe the rapidity 

 with which the pain, injection, photophobia and the swelling diminish 

 under the course of such injections. 



In iridocy clitic processes the results were excellent; in iritis the 

 pain subsided, the pupil dilated and corneal defects showed early 

 vascularization ; even in luetic cases with the formation of synechia?, 

 the milk injection assisted the systemic specific treatment. 



On the other hand, with chronic iridochoriocyclitis, in blennorrhea 

 neonatorum and in tuberculous iridocyclitis the treatment seemed to 

 have little effect on the course of the disease. 



Klingmueller reported that with turpentine injections five cases 

 of ophthalmoblennorrhea cleared up very promptly. 



Peltesohn has studied in particular scrofulous diseases of the 

 eye and their treatment by nonspecific means and by the Ponndorf 

 method of intracutaneous tuberculin treatment. He found that the 

 severe and moderately severe cases responded well to the latter 

 method while almost hopeless cases were very favorably influenced by 

 suitable combined treatment with the casein and the tuberculin 

 injections. 



The report of Heine must finally be mentioned. Heine reports 

 the results of his experiments with subcutaneous injections of milk in 

 albuminuric retinitis. The dosage was from 5 to 10 c.c. If we re- 

 gard the checking of the deterioration of vision as due in all cases 

 to the milk injections, then out of 17 eyes, 15 were favorably affected 

 thereby. If we consider only such cases as being favorably affected 

 in which there was a marked improvement of vision, the favorable 

 results numbered 11, whereas in 4 the disease process was only stayed. 

 In 0Bly 2 did the disease process continue in spite of the injections. 



