Certain changes in the vessels and vascular coats of the eye which are of diagnostic and prognostic value in general disease / by G. E. de Schweinitz.

  • De Schweinitz, G. E. (George Edmund), 1858-1938.
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[1900]
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    [Reprinted from Maryland Mkdical Journal, June, 1900.] CERTAIN CHANGES IN THE VESSELS AND VASCULAR COATS OF THE EYE WHICH ARE OF DIAGNOSTIC AND PROGNOSTIC VALUE IN GENERAL DISEASE. By G. E. de Schweinitz, A.M., M.D., of Philadelphia. ADDRESS BEFORE THE MEDICAL AND CHIRURGICAL FACULTY OF MARYLAND, April 26, 1900. It is always difficult for one whose lines have fallen chiefly in the places of special medicine and surgery, when called upon to address an audience composed chiefly of general practitioners—for which privilege I desire to express my high appreciation and re- turn my heartiest thanks—to bring forward a topic that does not, on the one hand, smack too much of his own particular work, and, on the other, portray facts of mutual interest that are too well known to escape the opprobrium of oft-told tales. The mimicry of general disease by eye-strain, the diagnostic value of medical ophthalmoscopy, the ocular signs of the various toxemias, and the surgery of the eye are subjects which naturally suggest themselves and which are fraught with interest in which general and special practitioners alike may share. But a just consideration of the merits of any one of these in all its bearings would require an ex- penditure of time not possible or advisable on an occasion like this. We may, however, consider a subdivision of one of these topics which I trust will provide subject-matter of common interest, to Wit, certain phenomena visible in vessels and vascular coats of the eye, which are indices not only of what more intimate clinical study of these tissues might reveal, but of the general malady to which they owe their origin. Some of the best marked of these phenomena require no instru- ments of precision for their detection; others demand the use of the ophthalmoscope, of which instrument all physicians should make intelligent use, as they do of other instruments which refine their methods of examination and diagnosis. To be sure, it bor-