Red eye historical perspective

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Overview

Classification

Causes

Differentiating Red eye from other Diseases

Treatment

Overview

In 1883 Koch discovred the bacilli of two forms of two different forms of infectious conjunctivitis, or Egyptian ophthalmia. In 1886 Weeks discovered the same organism to be the cause of "pink-eye". [1]

References

  1. Weeks JE (1996). "The bacillus of acute conjunctival catarrh, or 'pink eye'. 1886". Arch Ophthalmol. 114 (12): 1510–1. PMID 8953986.

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