Remarks on ocular symptoms in cerebrospinal meningitis : notes based on the examination of 73 cases / by Arthur J. Ballantyne.

  • Ballantyne, Arthur J.
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[1907]
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    ^ •i>i'iiiieil from the Biutisit Mkuical Jwt'KNAL. Jn'i/ uhk. ON OCULAR SYMPTOMS IN CEREBRO- SPINAL MENINGITIS. NOTES BASED ON THE EXAMINATION OP 73 OASES. Bt ARTflUtt J. B4LLANTYNE, M.D., ASSISTANT SUESEON, GLASGOW EYE INFIBMAEY. Through the courtesy of the superintendents and staffs of the Glasgow Fever Hospitals, the writer has, within the last feiy months, had opportunities of investigiting the condition of the eyes in a number of cases of cerebro- spinal meningitis. Adding to tiiese a few cases seen else- where, the total number of cases examined amounts to 73. A.8 clinical reports embracing the details of the eye con- ditions in thi« disease have not been numerous, it may be of interest to give an account of the symptoms found in the present series of cases. In each case where possible a complete examination was made, bat it will be readily understood that often, especially in youcg children who were acutely ill, many points had to bd omitted. The series includes cases in all stages of the disease, from acute cases been on the second day of illness to others wnicli had loug before subsided into a state of chronic hydrocephalus. One of the latter cases was first seen in the thirtieth week of the disease. The ages of the patients ranged from 3 months to 47 years. Eye symptoms of any kind were absent only in 4 cases; of these 2 were convalescent. The others were seen on the sixteenth and sixty-fourth day rtspectively. Eyelids. The only lesion found on the lids themselves was an erapiion of herpes on both lids of one eye, in an acute ease at the end of the first wt-ek of illness. Abnormalities of the palp'dbral fissured were noted in 17 cases. In 2 of these the only abnormality was inequalil^y. In 2 cases the palpebral fi-sares were ubujr- mally wide and at the same time uueuual. lu anotUur, [3S0/OT]