Silver Nitrate and the Eyes of the Newborn

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The older generation may take some comfort in the realization that Carl Siegmund Franz Credé was in his 62nd year when he published the now famous article which is to follow in translation. The son of a French immigrant, he studied medicine at the University of Berlin, and in 1852, at the age of 33 years he established at the Charité Hospital what was to be the first department to be devoted to gynecology in continental Europe. Four years later he succeeded to the chair of obstetrics at Leipzig. In 1854 he described a method for expression of the placenta which still bears his name, and commented on the association between inflammation of the maternal genitals and ophthalmia neonatorum.1But he will be particularly remembered by pediatricians for his method of prevention of this disease which crippled so many children in former days. Credé's report appeared in 1881,2at a

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