SYNOPSIS OK CONTENTS 
Part I — The Flora of the Normal and Diseased Conjunctival Sac 
Source of Material. 
Methods. 
Description of organisms found in the normal conjunctival sac. 
Summary of all the organisms found in the diseased conjunctival sac. 
Experiments to determine the rate of disappearance of organisms from the normal and 
diseased conjunctivae. 
Experiments to determine the pathogenic properties of the organisms found in the normal 
conjunctival sac. 
Experiments to determine the pathogenic properties of the organisms found in the diseased 
conjunctival sac. 
Conclusions. 
Previous work on the subject. 
Part II — The Organisms associated with Suppurative Inflammations 
of the Conjunctiva 
Methods. 
Conditions examined — 
(a) Ophthalmia caused by the gonococcus. 
(/;) Ophthalmia caused by the Koch-Weeks bacillus — 
Description of cases. 
Biological characters of Koch-Weeks bacillus. 
Inoculation experiments, 
(i:) Muco-purulent catarrh caused by the Koch-Weeks bacillus — 
Description of cases. 
Previous work on the Koch-Weeks bacillus. 
(d) Ophthalmia associated with B. Diphtheriae and Streptococcus pyogenes. 
(e) Ophthalmia caused by Streptococci. 
(/) Ophthalmia caused by Staphylococci. 
(g) Ophthalmia caused by Staphylococcus albus. 
(/;) Granular ophthalmia — 
Muco-purulent catarrh associated with small granules. 
Large granules (true trachoma). 
Chronic trachoma with cicatricial thickening. 
Histology of the trachoma granule. 
Literature. 
(i) Diplobacillary conjunctivitis. 
(/) Diseases of the lachrymal sac— 
Mucocele. 
Acute dacryocystitis. 
Unclassified cases. 
