1839, Johann Christoph August Franz, The Eye: A Treatise on the Art of Preserving this Organ in a Healthy Condition, and of Improving the Sight, J. Churchill; Chapter VI., § VII., pages 281–282:
There remains yet to be mentioned one of the most important of the primary blennorrhϾ, which was brought to Europe from Egypt by the troops employed in that country during the expedition under Napoleon, and has thence been named the Egyptian ophthalmia.
1854, Carl Rokitansky and William Edward Swaine, A Manual of Pathological Anatomy, J. E. Adlard; Volume I, Chapter X, page #396:
The pigmented appearance of the skin, the excessive, and, at the same time, anomalous fat‐formation,— and blennorrhœæ are all characteristic of the crasis.
1858, Materia Medica, Jefferson Church; Volume I., part 2, page #1188:
These gentlemen always used it in the sense of a remedy for the Chronic BlennorrhϾ, more particularly BlennorrhϾ nasalis, commonly known by the name of Coryza chronica. In all the BlennorrhϾ, the patient is harrassed with an excessive and inordinate secretion of mucus from the mucous membranes, and suspending this secretion is considered as Apophlegmatization.
1874, Alfred Vogel and H. Raphael, A Practical Treatise on Diseases of Children, D. Appleton and Company; Part II., pages 76–77:
Be that as it may, this much is irrefutable, that at least from eighty to ninety per cent. of all conjunctival blennorrhœæ occur in the new‐born, that that is every instance the act of the delivery, per se, may be regarded as the most important etiological agent.
1910, Bruno Heymann in American Journal of Ophthalmology, Adolf Alt; Volume XXVII., page #143:
Of the 13 one only, of the 15 every one showed Prowazek bodies, that is, among 28 cases of recent blennorrhœa neonatorum there were 12 pure gonoblennorrhœæ, 15 “inclusion blennorrhœæ,” as Linder calls them, and one mixed blennorrhœa.
