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IRVING H. LEOPOLD, M.D.

AMA Arch Ophthalmol. 1951;45(1):44-52.

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IT IS well known that four criteria are of major importance in evaluating antibiotics in ophthalmology; namely, (1) ease of penetration into ocular tissues when the drug is locally or systemically administered; (2) toxicity for ocular tissues; (3) effectiveness against standard experimental ocular infections; (4) effectiveness against clinical ocular infections.

The ease of administration, cost, availability, general tissue toxicity and range of antibiotic activity are also of importance, but these are not solely ophthalmologic problems. Data concerning the four main criteria have been reported for penicillin,¹ streptomycin,² bacitracin³ and aureomycin.⁴ Recently, an evaluation of the ocular penetration and toxicity of chloramphenicol has been reported.^1b It was found that chloramphenicol is stable in solution and penetrates readily into the ocular tissues and fluids after systemic (oral and intravenous) and local administration. These studies with chloramphenicol have been continued with the intent of evaluating its clinical effectiveness.⁵ . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
PHILADELPHIA

From the Research and Clinical Department of Wills Hospital.

Footnotes
Presented before the Section of Ophthalmology of the Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons, Boston, Oct. 25, 1950.

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