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ARTHUR M. YUDKIN, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1938;19(3):366-377.

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In this ever changing world the members of the medical profession have found it necessary to treat man's bodily and mental afflictions with newer and more specific therapeutic methods. This evolutionary change has been based on the advancement of science. In the past it was thought that many of the ailments of mankind were produced by changes in the humors of the body. With the advent of newer knowledge of bacteria and their associated toxins, a major portion of the diseases were attributed to bacterial invasion of the body; thus focal infection came into vogue as an underlying cause of many diseases. To this day effort is made to eliminate every possible source of infection in the treatment of inflammations of the various organs, particularly the eye, through eradication of foci of infection, such as the tonsils and teeth, opening of the sinuses and extirpation of many of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW HAVEN, CONN.

From the Department of Surgery, Section of Ophthalmology, Yale University School of Medicine.

Footnotes
Read at a meeting of the New York Clinical Society of Ophthalmology, Dec. 6, 1937.

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