Concerning a possible etiological factor in tobacco-alcohol amblyopia revealed by an analysis of the urine of cases of this character / by G. E. de Schweinitz and David L. Edsall.

George Edmund de Schweinitz

Date:: [1897?]

Credit: Concerning a possible etiological factor in tobacco-alcohol amblyopia revealed by an analysis of the urine of cases of this character / by G. E. de Schweinitz and David L. Edsall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$CONCERNING A POSSIBLE ETIOLOGICAL FACTOR IN TOBACCO - ALCOHOL AMBLYOPIA RE- VEALED BY AN ANALYSIS OF THE URINE OF CASES OF THIS CHARACTER. 3 ^ By G. E. de SCHWEINITZ, A.M., M.D., AND DAVID L. EDSALL, M.D., Philadelphia, Pa. \ In recent times the pathogenesis of the toxic amblyopias in general and particularly the alterations which are produced in the ganglion cells of the retina and optic nerve by the action of quinine, methyl alcohol, and fihx mas have attracted much atten- tion. For a full consideration of the literature of this subject and the various views of experimenters and observers, the reader is referred to the papers of Ward Holden^, Drualt, NueP, Uhthof¥^, Siegrist^ Uhthoff and Groenouw^ NohP, Birch- Hirschfeld^, de Schweinitz^, and Schieck^*^. It is not, however, 1 Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society, 1898. 2Recherches sur la Pathogenie de Tamaurose quinine, Paris, 1900, and Archives d'Ophth., January, 1902, p. 19. 3 The XIII Congres International de Medecine, Section d'Ophthalmologie, Paris, 1900. 4 Ibid. ^Archiv. f. Augenheilk., March, 1900. 8 Graefe-Saemisch, Handbuch der Gesamten Augenheilkunde, Zweite Auflage, 32. Lieferung, iqoi. Beitrage zur Augenheilkunde, Heft 48, 1901, p. 51. 8 Archiv. f. Ophthalmologic, Bd. 52, 1900, p. 358; ibid, 53, 1901-1902, p. 79; ibid, 54, 1902, p. 68; ibid, 55, 1903, p. 380. ® Ophthalmic Record, April, 1902. Archiv. f. Ophth., 54, 1902, p. 458.$