Abstract
When Michel, in 1890, emphasized the significance of tuberculosis as an etiologic factor in diseases of the eye, he was literally ridiculed by his colleagues. Since then there has been a marked change of opinion, and, at the present time, it is well known that any tissue of the eye may become the seat of a tuberculous process. Histologic evidence that has been gathered from the study of microscopic sections of eyes has proved that tuberculosis is frequently responsible for ocular inflammations. Research workers have also been able to produce in animals all the clinical manifestations of tuberculosis of the eye as it is seen in the human being, and have fully substantiated Michel's contention. In many instances, obscure inflammations of the eye are of tuberculous origin, and they may tax one's resources to the utmost in making a diagnosis, and unless one has tuberculosis in mind, the cause may
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