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- Title
TRACHOMA IN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN BRITISH PALESTINE: 1919-1948.
- Authors
COLLINS, KENNETH
- Abstract
The article discusses the effect of trachoma, a communicable eye disease also known as granular opthalmia during the 19th century that can result in blindness, on the Jewish community in Palestine from 1919 to 1948 under British imperial rule. Topics include the historical diagnosis process for trachoma, the epidemic spread of eye infections such as trachoma, Kock-Weeks, pneumococcus, and non-genital gonococcus, and the characteristics of the trachoma eye disease which causes chronic follicular conjunctivitis and inflammation. The epidemiology and treatment of the infection is discussed, with information on eye hygiene in Israel at the beginning of the 20th century.
- Subjects
ISRAEL; TRACHOMA treatment; EYE diseases; PREVENTION of communicable diseases; TRACHOMA prevention; INFECTIOUS disease transmission; TRACHOMA; PALESTINIAN history, 1917-1948; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HISTORY of public health; PREVENTIVE medicine; TWENTIETH century; DIAGNOSIS; HISTORY
- Publication
Korot / Qôrôt̲, 2011, Vol 21, p89
- ISSN
0023-4109
- Publication type
Article