Alan C. Woods

The Possible Influence of Immunological Factors in the Production of Cataract

Lens protein consists of three distinctive and different proteins—alpha, beta, and gamma crystalline. Alpha is the strongest in its organ-specific reactions and when separated from the two others may behave as an antigen in the homologous animal. Experimental production of cataract has occurred only in the young of treated mothers. The two groups of theories with regard to the application of knowledge concerning lens protein are discussed. From the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute of the Johns Hopkins University and Hospital. Read before the Association for Research in Ophthalmology, in Milwaukee, May 10, 1933.

Sympathetic Ophthalmia: Part II

This is the second part of a paper on this subject by the author. Part I appeared in the issue of January, 1936. Part II deals with the pathology and prophylaxis of the disease with statistics as to the outcome of treatment from the reports of Post, Verhoeff, Woods, and Joy. This paper was delivered as a lecture at the Graduate School of Ophthalmology at the University of Rochester, New York, on July 29, 1935. From the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute of the Johns Hopkins University and Hospital.

Uveitis, its Diagnosis, Etiology and Treatment. An Illustrative Case

This is the report of a typical illustrative case in which the ocular examination was supplemented by the general examination of a physician, a rhinologist and laboratory examinations of the blood. The lines of treatment thus indicated were followed including protein therapy with dead typhoid bacilli, the vision and usefulness of the eye being largely recovered.

THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE FLAVOBACTERIUM OPHTHALMIAE TO PERIODIC OPHTHALMIA IN HORSES

Dr. E. C. Rosenow 1 recently described an organism, Flavobacterium ophthalmiae, which he believed to be related etiologically to periodic ophthalmia, or moon-blindness, of horses. The specific object in this investigation was to determine if this etiologic relationship of Flavobacterium ophthalmiae to the disease could be confirmed. Periodic ophthalmia, or moon-blindness, is essentially a recurrent