“He was conscious that by now Teresa’s problems had worsened, and his friend later indicated that he was resolved to arrange for her best care. She was possessed of the listlessness and flushed face typical of her disease, and she went about the house, still trying to attend to domestic matters with a glazed eye and a rasping breath that the humidity exacerbated. She was also possessed by what the tubercular Brontë sisters’ physician called a tinge of religious melancholy.… The medicals journals including the Lancet, carried news of a number of new treatments under consideration in England, including mixtures of quinine and beef tea, and the pumping of various mixtures into patients’ mouths, the most common ingredients for forcible pumping including hydrogen, coal gas, iodine, creosote, and carbolic acid. Teresa was, after all, naturally robust, and if the treatment could be hit upon, the disease would withdraw quite quickly.” (

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Effective treatment of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is still unavailable. A recent study suggests that prolactin levels are elevated in the circulation and in the eyes of patients with ROP in whom the regression of neovascularisation of ROP had taken place. Researchers suggest that high levels of ocular prolactin originating from internalised …