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Ophthalmia Neonatorum
Crede's plan, commonly adopted, yields excellent results. This consists in dropping into the conjunctival sac one or two drops of a two per cent, solution of nitrate of silver, the lids having previously been wiped dry.. . .The hands of the mother, nurse, and child should be searched for sources of infection, and, in addition to the usual antiseptic precautions during labor, if gonorrhea is known to exist in the mother, the child should be removed from the immediate surroundings of the lying-in woman....