Associated and related ocular and dental diseases / by William Job Collins.

  • Collins, William Job, 1859-1946.
Date:
1891
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    tenulge are herpetic, and that herpes is somehow neurotic, and if neurotic, associated somehow with dental irritation, there is probably little basis for any such idea. On the other hand Hutchinson, from an exam- ination of 102 cases of interstitial keratitis, was able to arrive at the induction that this disease was due to inherited syphilis, and was very fre- quently accompanied with a characteristic physi- ognomy and definite dental irregularity. The same author's demonstration* of the remarkable con- comitance of laminar cataract and defective enamel, especially of the first molars, and Arlt's connection of the former with infantile convul- sions, is not less suggestive of some underlying relation between ocular, dental and general nutri- tional aberration. Whether the chain of relation- ship is that mercurial powders given for the convulsions cause the dental peculiarities, while the cataract is referrible to the convulsions, and not to the mercury is, to say the least, very doubtful. When we come to cases where far commoner and less specific dental disease exists as a possible or part cause in some lesion of the eye, we can only proceed upon known anatomical lines and proved physiological facts. Apart from such cases as antral disease, which Path. Soc. Trans., vol. xxvi., p. 235.