On a case of acute optic neuritis associated with acute myelitis / by Seymour J. Sharkey and J. B. Lawford.

  • Sharkey, Seymour J.
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[1884]
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    Reprinted from Vol. IV of the Ophthalmological Society's Transactions.'] On a case of acute optic neuritis associated with acute myelitis. By Sbtmoue J. Sharkey, M.B,, and J. B. Lawpoed. Gr. T—, set. 17, kitchen-inaid, was admitted into tlie Eoyal London Ophthalmic Hospital, under the care of Mr. Streatfeild, on November 22nd, 1883. There was nothing noteworthy in the patient's family history, except that she was one of sixteen children, seven of whom died as infants. Eight were alive and well, four of whom were younger than the patient. There were no grounds for suspecting syphilis. She had always been delicate, but never seriously ill. Menstruation was regular but profuse. Yision began to fail on the 9th of November, about a fortnight before she came under observation, and by the 13th she was quite blind. She had had neither head- ache, sickness, paralysis, nor fits, nor could she suggest any cause which might have given rise to her illness. On admission she was found to be a well-nourished girl, looking tolerably healthy, but anasmic. She had no complaint to make except of her blindness. All the functions seemed to be well performed. The thyroid gland was the seat of a simple hypertrophy, and the patient said it had been large as long as she could recol- lect. On examinjTtron of the eyes the pupils were found to be unduly dilated and motionless to light, but there was no paralysis of ocular muscles. Well-marked optic neuritis was seen in both eyes, accompanied by much swelling of the discs and of the retina immediately surrounding them.