SPECIAL FORMS OF COXJUNCTIVAL INFECTION 157 



USHER, C. H., and FRASER, U., E. L. O. H. Reports, 1904, p. 444. 



YEASY (Philadelphia), Ophth. Review, 1899, S. 354. Ibid., Archives of ophthal- 

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WEEKS, Arch. f. Augen., 1887, Bd. 17, S. 318. Ibid., New York eye and ear 

 infirmary Report, 1895. 



WEICHSELBAUM and MULLEH, A. f. O., 1899, Bd. 47, S. 108. 



WILBRAND, SAENGER, STAEHLIN, Jahrb. d. Hamburger Staatskrankenanstalten, 1894. 



WIBO, Presse med. Beige, May, 1905. 



WYNEKOOP, A further study of the Influenza Bacillus. (Amer. med. Assoc., 53.) 

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SECTION 2. DIPLOBACILLAEY CONJUNCTIVITIS 

 (MOEAX, AXENFELD). 



Petit's Variety of the Diplobacittus. 

 Cf. PLATE I., FIGS. III. AND VI.; PLATE III., FIG. II. 



Historical. 



We have to thank Morax for the discovery of this peculiar infectious 

 disease, which, so far as our knowledge goes, though very frequent, is 

 exclusively an affection of the human conjunctiva. In July, 1896, he 

 published a short paper, in which he recorded all the essential points 

 in the exact description of the. clinical features and organismal cause 

 of a disease which he termed ' conjonctivite subaigue.' He there 

 definitely stated that the inoculation of pure cultures on the human 

 conjunctiva produced the typical disease, but the bacillus was in no 

 way pathogenic for animals. 



Immediately thereafter, at the Heidelberg Ophthalmological Con- 

 ference (August, 1896), Axenfeld demonstrated preparations of the 

 same bacillus, which he had independently grown on Lb'ffler's blood- 

 serum in Marburg. In a more detailed account he corroborated 

 Morax' s findings in every particular, and elaborated the clinical 

 appearances in this and a later communication from a material con- 

 sisting of fifty-one cases. On account of its pre-eminently chronic 

 character, he proposed the name ' chronic diplobacillary conjunctivitis.' 

 Axenfeld recorded positive inoculations of the human conjunctiva. 



Following on these publications came confirmatory statements from 

 all sides, showing that the disease is spread over the world in extra- 

 ordinary profusion, to such an extent that I consider it to be the most 

 widespread infectious disease which exists, and showing also that a 

 characteristic clinical appearance is presented by the majority of cases. 



Peters reported many cases in Bonn. Gifford (Omaha, Nebraska) 



