On ocular movements, with vertigo, produced by pressure on a diseased ear / by J. Hughlings Jackson.

  • Jackson, J. Hughlings (John Hughlings), 1835-1911.
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[1883]
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Credit: On ocular movements, with vertigo, produced by pressure on a diseased ear / by J. Hughlings Jackson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Reprinted from Vol. HI of the Ophthalmological Society’* Transaction*!] /. * On ocular movements, with vertigo, produced hy pressure on a diseased ear. By J. Huqhlinqs Jackson^ M.D., F.R.S. In the last volume of our ‘ Transactions ’ reference is given to some observations I made on a patient during his paroxysm of auditory vertigo; during it the eyes jerked to the rightj and at the same time external objects seemed to him to move in that direction. There is in that volume a communication by Bonders on the subject of movements of the eyes in relation to apparent movements of objects. In the case I have to relate to-night no paroxysm was seen^ but pressure on part of a diseased ear was invariably followed by ocular movements; the patient had at the same time apparent displacement of objects; perhaps we may say that slight paroxysms of auditory vertigo were in this case artificially produced, as they seem to be in some people, by syringing the ear. Schwalbach has recorded an essentially similar case; a summary of his observations by Clarence Blake is repro- duced in ‘ Brain,’ for April, 1879. I have to thank Mr. Laidlaw Purves and Mr. Couper for great help in the investigation of the case. I now proceed to detail. A woman, set. 49, consulted me November 23rd, 1882, for giddiness and irregular walking; these symptoms had existed for about three months. She had had disease of the right ear since childhood; at no time had she had