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Excerpt from School Ophthalmia
AT first sight it may seem somewhat strange to apologise for the title of this paper, chosen, as it was, by myself. For all that, the phrase school ophthalmia is a mis nomer, inasmuch as it implies a peculiar form of eye disease found in schools and nowhere else. In seeking to define its meaning, Members of this Association need scarcely be reminded that there is no malady of the sort which we do not find without as well as within the walls of such institutions. Nevertheless the phrase has a distinct advantage, because we learn from it that certain forms of ophthalmia are common in schools, just as they are in other places where folk come together in numbers, as workhouses, ships, hospitals, and barracks. Although open to objection, then, the title will suit our present purpose, which is to discuss the varieties and the bearings of epidemic conjunctivitis amongst young people brought together for educational or other reasons.
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