THE PROSTATE AS A REMOTE FOCUS OF INFECTION IN OCULAR INFLAMMATIONS

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The object in reporting the following cases of metastatic1infection in the eye is to direct attention anew to the importance of searching further than the mouth, nose and throat for the portal of infection, and to emphasize that this is not infrequently to be found in the prostate gland. A causal relation of a focus of infection to a metastatic inflammation is not often susceptible of scientific proof, and no such hope was entertained when a study of these cases was undertaken. It did seem, however, that the evidence was at least circumstantial and could be left to one's judgment as to whether it was sufficient on which to convict. REPORT OF CASES Case 1. —A. T., referred by Dr. J. Hiland Dewey, Sept. 10, 1923, had been under his care since September, 1913, and for eight years had had repeated attacks of inflammation in the right eye.

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