On the cerebro-spinal origin and the diagnosis of the protrusion of the eyeballs termed anaemic / by Thomas Laycock.
- Thomas Laycock
- Date:
- 1863
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Credit: On the cerebro-spinal origin and the diagnosis of the protrusion of the eyeballs termed anaemic / by Thomas Laycock. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![of the fifth and seventh ; and, finally, that in the class of cases under consideration, when the exophthalmos is symmetrical, it is spinal; the cervical and upper dorsal region being the seat, together with the corresponding cervical and dorsal divisions of the sympathetic; but when unsymmetrical, it is due to disease of the trigeminal ganglion and branches of the fifth pair. [Note as to the state of the Eyes in cerebral mental diseases.— Three years ago, my friend Dr Rorie, superintendent of the Dundee Asylum, examined, at my request, the eyes of patients under his care, in respect to their prominence, state of pupil, and other matters. Of each sex, 86 were examined; of the females, 26 had prominent and 4 very prominent eyes, together, nearly 35 per cent.; of the males, 11 had prominent and 6 very prominent eyes; showing the considerable excess of 15 per cent, amongst the females. It is required to know, however, what is the natural proportion, absolute and relative, before we can determine how far these states amongst the insane are morbid. Changes in the pupils were also observed by Dr Rorie, and he found that there wras a difference in the two eyes. Of 7 females, the left pupil was more dilated than the right in 5, and of 8 males 6 ; or, in other words, the left was more dilated than the right in the proportion of 11 in 15. But then he found also that the same difference could be observed in persons apparently healthy. One only in 172 patients had sunken or retracted eyes, and he was formerly subjected to paroxysms of rotatory movements, and one, an epileptic male, had the left eye more prominent than the right.] Rutland Street, Edinburgh, January 1863. Article II.— On the Epidemic Influenzas of Iceland, especially the last one of 1862. By John Hjaltelin, M.D., Medical Officer of Iceland. Amongst all epidemical diseases of this century, few are more interesting than the epidemic influenzas, especially since it is evident that they get more and more frequent. In the history of this disease, Iceland has hitherto, on account of its natural isolation, been over- looked by the epidemiologists ; but I think, nevertheless, that there are some interesting hints regarding this malady, which, if carefully collected, might be of some interest to medical science, and it is therefore that I venture to give some aphoristic description of the Icelandic influenzas, and of the late epidemic of this kind. On entering on a short historical account of Icelandic influenzas, I must remark, that although the Icelandic people have been very sedulous, and even accurate, in collecting historical notes from ail](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22436406_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
