ETIOLOGY OF UVEITIS

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Abstract
The significance attributed to the various systemic infections and diseases believed to cause endogenous uveitis varies enormously in different clinics, in different localities and in succeeding decades. These variations appear due to the individual bias of the observer, to the prevalence of certain diseases in certain localities and to the steady improvement in diagnosis and in medical knowledge. Table 1 gives a summary of the more significant of the published reports on the etiology of uveitis and illustrates the changing opinion of ophthalmologists. In the middle of the last century uveitis was regarded as due to syphilis, rheumatism, gouty diathesis or tuberculosis. In the latter part of the century localized pyogenic infections were occasionally blamed.1 In the early part of the present century, in the flush of popularity enjoyed by the doctrine of focal infection, uveitis was attributed to localized focal infections in an increasing number of cases in

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