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Midwives, Society, and Childbirth: Debates and Controversies in the Modern Period
Book by Hilary Marland, Anne Marie Rafferty; Routledge, 1997
...puerperal infection and signs of infantile ophthalmia. Medical experts claimed that ophthalmia neonatorum, which was blamed for causing around...slightest inflammation. In 1908, when ophthalmia neonatorum was the subject of a BMA national investigation...

Exceptional Children
Book by Florence L. Goodenough, Lois M. Rynkiewicz; Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1956
Subjects:	Child Psychology
...has developed. For example, 50 years ago, ophthalmia neonatorum 2 was responsible for as much as 25 per cent of...tissue behind the crystalline lens of the eye. 2 Ophthalmia neonatorum is an acute inflammation of the conjunctiva in...

A Breviate of Parliamentary Papers, 1917-1939
Book by P. Ford, G. Ford; Blackwell, 1951
Subjects:	Great Britain--Parliament--Archives, Great Britain--Politics And Government--1910-1936, Great Britain--Politics And Government--1936-1945
...predominant causes. These have now been checked, but ophthalmia neonatorum and syphilis are predominant to-day, and can...of Health should take adequate steps to combat ophthalmia neonatorum; any infant whose vision is impaired should be...

Voluntary Societies and Social Policy
Book by Madeline Rooff; Routledge & Paul, 1957
Subjects:	Blind--Great Britain, Charities--Great Britain, Maternal And Infant Welfare--Great Britain, Mentally Handicapped--Great Britain
...comprehensive report is the reference to the fact that ophthalmia neonatorum had only recently become compulsorily notifiable...The proportion of cases of blindness due to ophthalmia neonatorum to the total number of blind persons was calculated...

Sex, Disease, and Society: A Comparative History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific
Book by Milton Lewis, Scott Bamber, Michael Waugh; Greenwood Press, 1997
Subjects:	Aids (Disease)--Asia--History, Aids (Disease)--Pacific Area--History, Sexually Transmitted Diseases--Asia--History, Sexually Transmitted Diseases--Pacific Area--History
...sexually transmitted disease from their husbands. Ophthalmia neonatorum was common, and babies with syphilitic eruption...most people. Silver nitrate for the treatment of ophthalmia neonatorum, for instance, was rarely available even in...

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A Look Back: 100 Years of Literature on Low Vision
Journal article by Duane R. Geruschat, Anne L. Corn; Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, Vol. 100, 2006
Subjects:	Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness (Periodical)--Services, Periodical publishing--Services, Vision disorders--Care and treatment, Vision disorders--Forecasts and trends, Visually disabled persons--Care and treatment, Visually disabled persons--Social aspects, Visually impaired persons--Care and treatment, Visually impaired persons--Social aspects
...United States in the early 1900s were ophthalmia neonatorum and trachoma. Ophthalmia neonatorum--a form of conjunctivitis caused by...Evidence of the continued presence of ophthalmia neonatorum among newborns was still being reported...

Editor's Page
Journal article by Duane R. Geruschat; Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, Vol. 100, 2006
Subjects:	Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness (Periodical)--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness (Periodical)--Services, Periodical publishing--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Periodical publishing--Services
...three leading causes of death were pneumonia, tuberculosis, and diarrhea; the leading causes of blindness were ophthalmia neonatorum in children and trachoma and cataracts in adults; 6% of Americans graduated from high school; 8% of the homes...

Venereal Disease, Sexual Morality, and Public Health in Interwar Scotland
Journal article by Roger Davidson; Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 5, 1994
Subjects:	Sex Customs--History, Sexology
...reinforced by growing evidence and awareness of the repercussions of male infection for congenital syphilis and ophthalmia neonatorum, and the impact upon family and racial health of male promiscuity became a leading item on the agenda of the...

Feeling Grounded: A Gendered View of Population Control
Journal article by Elizabeth Spahn; Environmental Law, Vol. 27, 1997
Subjects:	Birth control--Political aspects
...15. Data from a number of countries suggested in comparison the $1.40 `would avert one case of gonoccal ophthalmia neonatorum, which results in blindness if untreated and $12 would avert an adverse outcome associated with syphilis during...

Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Magazine article by Alice M. Clark; Drug Topics, Vol. 137, April 5, 1993
Subjects:	AIDS, Causes, Disease, Pharmaceuticals, Pharmacists, Prevention, Recommendations, Trends, United States
...is the potential for congenital infection of neonates by delivery through an infected birth canal, leading to ophthalmia neonatorum, an infection of the mucous membranes of the eye. Successful therapy of gonococcal infection depends on several...

Continuing Education: Common Ophthalmic Diseases and Their Treatment
Magazine article by David S. Ziska, Sara L. Noble, Robert C. Forbes; Drug Topics, Vol. 139, July 10, 1995
Subjects:	Continuing education, Pharmacists, United States
...with systemic erythromycin to avoid the teratogenicity and dental staining caused by tetracycline antibiotics. Ophthalmia neonatorum is a form of conjunctivitis that may occur in newborns as they pass through the birth canal. This ophthalmic...

Ophthalmia Neonatorum
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM see conjunctivitis . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.

Blindness
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...infectious diseases of the eye can be prevented or cured. A major cause of congenital blindness in the United States, ophthalmia neonatorum, which is caused by gonorrhea organisms in the maternal birth canal, is now prevented by placing silver nitrate...

Conjunctivitis
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...gonococcus bacterium and is usually associated with a genital infection. Conjunctivitis in newborn infants, called ophthalmia neonatorum, was a problem at one time; however, routine instillation of silver nitrate solution into the eyes of newborn...

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