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. 1913;13(Pt 2):348–376.
The Prophylaxis of Ocular Birth Infections*
Robert Sattler
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This paper emphasizes the fact that gonococcal conjunctivitis, one of the ocular expressions of veneral disease, is, even at the present, often included and classified under the term ophthalmia neonatorum by many physicians, and some specialists, through wrong diagnosis or intentionally. Also that gonorrhea is not, as formerly and commonly supposed, responsible for a preponderant share of ocular birth infections, even though the gravity and loathsomeness of every real case, now, as formerly, remain unchanged. That it is an unnecessary and preventable ocular lesion of infancy; also that gonococcal conjunctivitis should be declared a contagious disease by our boards of health, and that its only reliable prophylaxis is the suppression of licentiousness among men.
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