On the treatment of so-called scrofulous eye diseases

The outpatient daily practice of every doctor-ophthalmologist and non-ophthalmologist, especially in the area where he has in front of him a sufficient contingent of scrofulous eye diseases for observation, usually connected with a kind of Habitus'oM of patients: diseases of the ears and places of the skin, with an increase in the cervical, submandibular and other glands and very often with symptoms of a pulmonary nature at subfebrile temperature - all this has long forced and continues to lead to the conclusion that eye scrofula is one of the manifestations of a general disease of the body and that it has a known connection with tuberculosis.