Ophthalmic Hospital reports, and Journal of the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital. No. 12. July, 1860 / edited by J.F. Streatfeild.

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1860
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Credit: Ophthalmic Hospital reports, and Journal of the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital. No. 12. July, 1860 / edited by J.F. Streatfeild. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    |)n:tecope of ^Foreign (^pfjtfjalmology* TRANSLATIONS AND ABSTRACTS OF IMPORTANT TAPERS PUBLISHED ABROAD. By Dr. J. Soelberg Wells. DISEASE OF THE CHOROID, VITREOUS HUMOUR AND RETINA IN BRIGHT'S DISEASE, TOGETHER WITH A PECULIAR FORM OF EMBOLUS * By Heinrich Muller. The attention of pathologists having of late been so ranch directed to the changes which the structures within the eye undergo in the amaurosis accompanying Bright's disease, a short account of a paper upon this subject by such an authority as H. Muller, will I am sure prove accept- able to the profession. Hitherto descriptions have only been given of the changes which occur in the retina in morbus Brightii, Muller how- ever, has observed not only changes in the retina, but also in the choroid and vitreous. In a young man who died of granular atrophy of the kidneys, with dropsy, and in whom a marked amblyopia had shown itself, Miillcr had the opportunity of examining the eyes and noticing the following changes, (one eye was ex- amined fresh the other after having been hardened):— 1. The choroid was thick, strongly pigmented, but with the exception of some whitish stripes, it did not to the naked eye seem particularly changed in appearance. In these situations, however, as well as in some others, a micro- scopic examination showed in both eyes extensive changes in the blood vessels. The walls were thickened by a homogeneous mass, which refracted light very strongly, while the veins were here and
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