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IV. INTERSTITIAL KERATITIS AND TRAUMA; CLINICAL, EXPERIMENTAL AND MEDICOLEGAL ASPECTS

JOSEPH V. KLAUDER, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1933;10(3):302-328.

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Although Mackenzie,¹ in 1840, clinically described interstitial keratitis under the heading of scrofulous corneitis, it was not until 1885 that Hutchinson² established with certainty that interstitial keratitis was attributable to congenital syphilis.

Few reports relative to the rôle of trauma in the causation of interstitial keratitis were published prior to 1905, and it was not until Perlia's³ report that the subject received much attention. Since then many reports have appeared—relatively few, however, in the American literature—and much controversy has been waged regarding the rôle of trauma in the causation of interstitial keratitis. The question is of considerable medicolegal importance and is constantly being discussed in the courts of law and before industrial accident boards.

Since it cannot be scientifically proved or disproved that trauma is concerned in the production of interstitial keratitis, any supposed rôle is a presumption. How valid is such presumption . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Professor of Dermatology and Syphilology, Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania ; Dermatologist and Syphilologist to Wills Hospital PHILADELPHIA

From the Wills Hospital Clinic for the Treatment of Ocular Syphilis and the Research Institute of Cutaneous Medicine.

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