A case of double optic neuritis without cerebral tumour / by J. Hughlings Jackson.

  • John Hughlings Jackson
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[1897]
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Credit: A case of double optic neuritis without cerebral tumour / by J. Hughlings Jackson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    13 thickening of the inner and outer nuclear layers, the inter- nuclear layer being much narrowed. The nuclear layers present only a dense aggregation of such round corpuscles as those already described, and which resemble those normally constituting these layers. The layer of nerve fibres is also thickened, and contains similar nuclei. The retina further outwards gradually assumes perfectly normal characters. The optic nerve contains many similar corpuscles, some aggregated along the vessels, others lying between the bun- dles of nerve fibres, others scattered through these bundles. They are more abundant just behind the sclerotic than farther back, but are present in about equal numbers throughout the whole length of optic nerve received. The section of the bundles shows a granular appearance, the separate nerve fibres being less distinct than usual, but there are no other evidences of degeneration. The amount of connective tissue between the bundles is not noticeably increased. That in the intervaginal space is however very abundant, the trabeculae being numerous and thick. Eye No. 2.—The appearances of this disc, retina, and optic nerve are essentially similar, except that the amount of swelling is rather less (Plate IV, Fig. 3). The height of swelling above the level of the choroidal ring is g-^oth of an inch on the side on which the swelling is greatest, and rather less on the opposite side. The commencement of the retina is not displaced outwards so far as in the other eye. There is the same infiltration of the new connective-tissue and of the nerve-fibre layer with minute nuclei.
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