EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF OCULAR TUBERCULOSIS

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Abstract
In a previous study1it was noted that for an undetermined period after recovery from an attack of secondary ocular tuberculosis the previously diseased eyes were endowed with a relative immunity to reinoculation with tubercle bacilli. When such eyes were given an inoculation of tubercle bacilli which produced typical disease in the normal fellow eye, the recovered eyes showed only a transient reaction to the tuberculin in the inoculum and did not have a second attack of tuberculosis. The studies at that time indicated that this local resistance was not due either to an increase in the general systemic immunity or to an exhaustion of the reaction capacity of the eye. It appeared to be related to some local condition in the eye itself. The purpose of this paper is to report further studies on this phenomenon of increased local resistance. These studies are reported in two parts. The

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