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Ophthalmology
Author(s) -
John M'Mullen
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1968.tb29425.x
Subject(s) - citation , ophthalmology , computer science , library science , medicine
Dr. L. Webster Fox of Philadelphia (Ophthalmology, 1915), in a paper read before the Philadelphia County Medical Society in February of last year, states that the widespread interest now taken by the medical profession in trying to aid ophthalmic surgeons in their attempts to eradicate this terrible scourge, is his excuse for again bringing the topic to the attention of the society. The term trachoma, which signifies a roughness of the conjunctiva, has been in use since the time of Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.), by whom this form of ophthalmia was described; but in Egypt, as Boldt has said, " Trachoma is as old as the Nile, the simoom, and the desert."