Intra-ocular disease : an interesting case in diagnosis : read before the Medical Society of the County of Albany, N.Y. / by C.A. Robertson.

  • Robertson, Charles A. (Charles Archibald), 1829-1880
Date:
1878
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Credit: Intra-ocular disease : an interesting case in diagnosis : read before the Medical Society of the County of Albany, N.Y. / by C.A. Robertson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    stance, which she could mention, as an exciting cause of the visual disturbance, and her health was as good as ever at the time. On Monday morning she returned to her school, as she had con- templated. The wavering still troubled her eyes, and she made no attempt to use a book, being able from her familiarity with the lessons to get on without it, but directed the children to make their figures larger on the blackboard, and thus managed her teaching. In the evening she tried again to read a novel, in which she had become interested, but gave up the unavailing effort From this time to the end of the school term, June 22d, the glim- mering continued, though less on the whole; but it varied, sometimes better, sometimes worse. She made the least possible use of the eyes during this period, and if any attempt to employ them was persisted in, they would inflame and look red next morning. When the school closed she went home (about twenty miles away), to spend a vacation, expecting benefit to the eyes in complete rest The expected benefit she did find to some extent Happening, however, on a book that she wanted to read, she made trial of her eyes, but found the bright light hurt them The weather at this time being excessively warm she went down into the coo] cellar of the house, a farm house, and by the mild light that came through the doorway was able to read nicely, to use her expression. Notwithstanding the persistence of her ailment, she felt confi- dent her eyes would grow better, and she continued to read and sew a little every day. She was aroused, however, to a sense of danger, while mak- ing a visit in the family of a physician in the neighborhood, during the last of July and the first of August At this time she became so much annoyed by photophobia, that she procured a pair of green glasses to protect her eyes against irritation from the light In the dusk and evenings, she said, she saw very well. She re- ceived admonitions from her medical friend here, that led her friends at home to send her to New York City to consult an oculist At this time the blur in the left eye had become some- what worse than in the right The third week of August she went to the New York Eye In- firmary on Thirteenth St. A physician there called the trouble in