Hydrocephalic amaurosis / by Jabez Hogg. Amaurosis and strabismus from ascaris lumbricoides.

  • Jabez Hogg
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[1888]
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Credit: Hydrocephalic amaurosis / by Jabez Hogg. Amaurosis and strabismus from ascaris lumbricoides. 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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    [Reprinted from the Medical Press and Circular, August 1st, 1888.] cTsk.5?^ ,o\ \ c..\ V* * ^ • * FEB 91 \l / 7 HYDROCEPHALIC AMAUROSIS. - s_ f ■ ' By JABEZ HOGG, Consulting Surgeon to the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital Hospital for Women and Children, Royal Masonic Institutions for Boys aud Girls, &c. In young children hydrocephalus is either acute or chronic. The ophthalmic surgeon is seldom called upon to treat either form of disease, indeed, it is only when blindness supervenes that he is likely to be consulted in any case. Hydrocephalic amaurosis is usually classed among the rarer affections of childhood. I have seen cases of blindness in the acute stage of hydrocephalus, as well as in the chronic and where there is every reason to believe that the accumulation of fluid has been going on for some time; as a sequelae of acute meningitis and of scarlet fever. A child making a tardy recovery from a smart attack of rubeola (scarlatina) is incautiously exposed to a chill, and in the course of a few days albuminuric symptoms will show themselves. If, however, it should so happen that the albuminuria is overlooked, then convulsions, blindness and coma will surely follow. In such a case, the blindness will, in all probability, be attributed to one of two causes, either to the sudden effusion of fluid pressing on the chiasma, or to a meningitis. Cases of the kind have been repeatedly reported in the medical jour- nals. I have had the advantage, one that rarely falls to a consultant, of following up a complicated case of infantile hydrocephalic amaurosis, and which was associated throughout its earlier stages with a number of other acute diseases, any one of which might have proved fatal