The ophthalmoscope and lues / by Ole B. Bull.

  • Ole Bornemann Bull
Date:
1884
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    Fig. ii. left eye. Ophthalmoscopic. Fundus uniformly obscurated. In the vi- treous, obfuscations. V the following weeks, variable sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse; the scotoma changing place from time to time. 14. E. C, aet. 27 laborer, was, in the years 1877 and '78, three times treated for constitutional syphilis. In the beginning of 1878, the sight of his right eye began to fail; some time after- wards, also the left. He suffered from photophobia and somewhat intense phosphenes, but had no pain. Eyes examined for the first time, July 26th, 1878. V r. eye -g5?, 1. §; the letters seem, for some seconds, hidden in a dense mist, through which they gradually become visible when the eye is, for awhile, fixed on them. Before the r. eye he sees a large black spot, formed like a C with the opening to the right. L r.eye j2^, 1. ■§. In both eyes scotomata within the field of vision. The form of those on the r. side as in the following drawing.