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BACTERIOLOGY OF THE EYE 



Necrosis is a very obvious feature of these virulent streptococcal infections, 

 especially in the case of the retina with its terminal vessels. In the uveal tract (iris, 





FIG. 82. METASTATIC CAPILLARY STREPTOCOCCAL EMBOLISMS (VIOLET) 

 IN CILIARY BODY. 



In the surrounding tissues necrosis, and commencing infiltration. 



FIG. 83. METASTATIC CHOROIDO-RETINAL ABSCESS, WITH STAPHYLOCOCCUS 

 PYOGENES AUREUS. 



Thick zoogkea masses (violet), with surrounding necrosis. (Isolated metastases in the eye 



in pyelonephritis.) 



ciliary body, choroid), with its anastomosing vessels, nodular infiltrations more 

 frequently occur, as is shown in Figs. 81 and 82, sections from the same eye. A 



