THE ETIOLOGY OF IRITIS

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This study was undertaken primarily to determine the causes of "rheumatic" iritis; but in the absence of any clear distinguishing features of this form apart from etiology, we have included all cases of nontraumatic iritis,1and after examining each patient as completely as possible, have grouped them in accordance with the causes discovered in each. This report does not assume to be a complete survey of the causes of iritis, but is rather a recital of the infections which we found and of the evidence for a n d against the etiologic relation of each to the iritis. The final conclusion as to the relative importance of each cause must be left to future studies. One hundred patients (forty-seven private and fifty-three clinical) have been thus studied.2Careful attention was given to the history, and a complete physical examination was made to detect the presence of syphilis, tuberculosis,

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