An attempt to cover the literature on trachoma for the purpose of writing an editorial note
brings home to one its immensity and variety, dealing as it does not only with the clinical …

IT is with considerable hesitation that I venture to make a somewhat hurried contribution to a
topic which has already been overwritten, lest I add more dust to the fog in which it is …

The name'trachoma'used to be almost synonymous with all eye disease and blindness. In a
way somewhat reminiscent of Helen of Troy, trachoma was the disease that'launched a …

HISTORICAL REVIEW TRACHOMA is one of the oldest diseases known to man. Well known
since Biblical times, it is still one of the greatest causes of blindness in the world. Among the …

History of our Knowledge. The importance of trachoma as a cause of human misery, as a
cause of blindness, and as a national economic loss is very much greater in some countries …

A DISCUSSION of the social and legal measures which may be taken in different countries
to reduce theincidence of trachoma, and to relieve the suffering and disability it causes, may …

INTRODUCTION TRACHOMA is a mild, insidious disease, frequently self-limiting, not
especially infectious, comparatively harmless, the causative organism of which we accept …

Amongst infectious diseases of epidemic character, there is TRACHOMA which, in spite of
taking the first place according to the great number of victims caused through it, and in spite …

Trachoma as it occurs in Egypt is true trachoma and is identical with the disease existing in
America among the Indian and white races. 1 The minor differences which are exhibited by …

THE article with the above title by Lieut.-Col. Wright in the June issue of the Brit. Jl. of
Ophthal. requires some comment from me. 1. In 1934 I was requested to prepare a report …