Notes to a synopsis of the diseases of the eye / by Benjamin Travers.

  • Benjamin Travers
Date:
1821
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Credit: Notes to a synopsis of the diseases of the eye / by Benjamin Travers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lias often liappened, tlmt the state of vision has been as good as at the best. NOTE D. PnoFESSOR Beer refers to many cases of this description, as from suppression of febrile diseases of the skin, scarlatina, variola, &c. in the first period of the eruptions. The pupil in these cases is much contracted and immoveable; the prognosis favorable, if treated early. He has also seen the disease after suppressed chronic diseases of the skin, as psora; after the amputation of the plica polonica, and very many in consequence of an abrupt healing of old leg ulcers. The prognosis in these cases is unfavorable. In that arising from suppressed catarrhus narium, in which the pupil is angular and drawn toward the outer canthus, he considers the prognosis encouraging. He mentions as rare and unfavor- able forms of the metastatic amaurosis, those arising from suppressed secretion of milk in lying-in women, and from' suppressed passions of the mind. NOTE E. An elderly gentleman, the subject of confirmed organic amaurosis, whom I had seen at intervals, died lately, and his friends kindly afforded me an opportunity of examining his head after death. In the year 1816 he first complained of dimness—was unable to mend his pen as usual, changed his spectacles repeatedly—and from writing a small neat hand wrote large and straggling. In walking he imagined that he saw objects on the ground which intercepted his path, and endeavoured to avoid them by taking long and high steps. The flames of the candle at night appeared multiplied and undefined. There was little if anv difference between the two eyes. About the time that is sight grew dim, he complained of uneasiness and on in the head. H
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