| View Larger Image | Trachoma | Paperbackby Julius Boldt (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | General Books LLC | | Page Count: | 194 Pages | | Publication Date: | August 04, 2009 |
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION In the last chapter we discussed Trachoma as a disease which had raged from time immemorial in various districts and countries, in endemic or pandemic form. We further showed that it attracted general attention only by its ravages since the beginning of last century amongst the armies and civil populations of European nations. It will now be of scientific as well as practical interest to make clear the present geographical distribution of the disease. Speaking generally, one may say that after the first half of last century Trachoma diminished in extent throughout the continent. During the Napoleonic wars greater bodies of men had been marched up and down, and cast hith.er and thither throughout Europe, than at any time since the migration of nations and the Crusades. Hence Trachoma had found in the army a suitable nidus in which to develop. Under the influence of concentration in badly ventilated and filthy buildings, the countless insanitary conditions of a campaign, its many hardships and irregularities of life, combined with the very lowest level of hygiene at that period, the disease had grown with frightful virulence, baffling all the efforts of the surgeons, and hindering and paralysing strategic movements. For a long time Trachoma was erroneously held to be a disease peculiar to soldiers, from which the civil population was exempt; hence it was called " Ophthalmia militaris." Even as late as 1859 the Belgian Academy of Medicine1 thought it necessary to publish the followingstatement: " There is no such disease as Ophthalmia militaris in so far as that term is meant to denote a specific eye affection exclusively found among soldiers." 1 Prager, Med. Jahrb. Bd. III. S. 279. In the long period of peace following the Europe... |
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