A compendium of human & comparative pathological anatomy / by Adolph Wilhelm Otto ; tr. from the German, with additional notes and references by John F. South.

Otto, Adolph Wilhelm, 1786-1845.

Date:: 1831

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$Vol. L. No. 216, p. 880. Aug. 1814.—Ehel and Closdiis, (in horses.) v. Summerring's Addenda to Baillie, p. 178, note 380.—Magendie in Journ. de Physiol, experim. Vol. III. No. 4, p. 376, U23.—Rudolphi Grundriss der Physiol. Vol. II. Part I. p. 220.—I have also seen two cases of this kind, one in a man and the other in an owl which had heen blinded by a shot in the eye.—Atrophy of the optic nerve on the same side as the blind eye, throughout its whole length back to the brain, was seen by Fesalius Decor]}, hum. fabrica. L. IV. c.4.—Co'salpinus, Rolfirick, Cheselden and Santorimis. v. Morgagni, Epist. XIII. 7.—Heiland in Ephem. Acad. Nat. Cur. Dec. III. Ann. VII. Obs. 157.—Meckel in nailer's Grundriss der Physiologie, p. 386.—CftWawi, p. 33 and 36 ; and in Mem. della Soc. Ital. Vol. XII. Part II. p. 27 ; and my Selt. Beob. Part II. p. 89.—A case in which both portions of the brain were wasted, in consequence of blindness of one eye, is described by Weiizel, p. 114. Cases also have been several times observed in which both eyes were blind, or both optic nerves throughout their whole length, together with the optic beds, were atrophic, v. Walter, p. 96.—f'rolik, (in a girl of fourteen years.)—Biennayer Mus. anat. path. p. 134, No. 564. Vindob. 1816; and my Verzeichn. No. 2350. In one such case it is said, that the optic portion of the nerve of the eye which was perfect, was atrophic, and that of the blind eye was natural, v. Magendie's Journ. de Phys. Vol. VIII. No. 1, p. 33.—On this point there is still much obscurity, and the contrary opinions seem to depend on this, that the disease originates sometimes from the eye, sometimes from the brain, and also on one or both sides; that it is sometimes a mere nervous disease, sometimes an inflammatory state, or disturbed nourishment of the eye ; and that the course of the disease in men and animals is different. In the former it appears that the destruction of one eye produces consequent atrophy of the nerve much later than in beasts and birds, v. Magendie, Vol. III. No. 4, p. 376. We also perhaps find a difference between man and different animals in refe- rence to the propagation of the disease to the opposite side. (6) Otto D. de morbis ab intumescentia et pressione nervorum per foramina ossium egredientium. Erford. 1799. Wasting of the olfactory nerve, without loss of smell, was seen by Mery. v. Progrcs de la Medec. 1697. — Loder Progr. Observatio tumoris scirrhosi in basi cranii reperti. Jenae, 1799, with plates.— iiommcrr'mg on Baillie, p. 263 ; and Addenda to Baillie, p. 177, note 379.— JVenzel De penit. cerebri struct, p. 104, (second case.)—J. Ward in London medical Repository, Vol. XX. p. 217, September, 1823. — J. F. Meckel in D. Archiv f. d. Physiol. Vol. III. p. 196.—B^clard in Magendie's Journ. de Physiol. Vol. V. No. 1 and 2, p. 17; and myself in three cases, v. Selt. Beob. Part II. p. 89 and 90. Since then also in one case from medullary sarcom of the eye and nose. Compression of the optic nerve arises from aneurysm of the carotid arteries near the Turkish saddle, from swelling of the appendage of the brain, v. Rullier in Archives g6nerales de Medecine, p. 302. October, 1823. From a malformed clinoid process ; v. Sbmvierring's Addenda to Baillie, p. 264, and from other tumours. Compare Boneti Sepulchret. anat. Lib. I. Sect. XVI. Obs. 1, 2, \Q.—Blegny Zodiac. Gallic. Obs. 14, p. 81, (by a bean- shaped bony concretion.)—Paw Obs. anat. rarior. II. p. 5, (hydatid.)—T. Plater Observationum, Vol. I. Lib. III. p. 102. Basil, 1641.—Haller Elem. Physiol. ^'ol. IV. p. 297.—Monro Praelect. medicae, &c. p. 27. Lond. ]776.-'~Boehmer Observ. anat. rar. Fasc. II. Obs. 3.—Sabourant in Prix de Chirurg. XI. p. 96. Several cases are related by Voigtel, from Wandeler, de JIaen, Ford, and Fcrro, v. Pathol. Anat. Vol.1, p. 679. — Flor. CahUmi Observat. anatom. Patav. 1803, with engravings.—Powel in Medic. Transact. Vol. V.—Esquirol in Diet, des Sc. m6dic. Vol. \'III. p. 291. — Hay in /tbercromhie, p. 430.—J. Ward. — LeveillS, read at a sitting of the Acad, de M6dec. of Paris, 10th Aug. 1824.—Schneider 1). de magna quadam enco])hali dcstructionc ejusque sequelis. 8vo. Berol. 1824.— Jlu.st'.s Maga/in f. d. ges. Ileilk. Vol. V. Part. I. p. \C)Ci.—Bhlard.—de la Matte, in Plula(leli)hia Journal of the medical and physical Sciences, August, 1827.— Magendie in Journ. de Physiol. Jan. 1828, Vol. VIII. p. 27.—Z>.'Mryrr 1). de cerebri tumoribus. 4 to. Bcrol. 1829, with engravings. //. y/. G. Jihudius 1). s. Casum singularem de Amaurosi cranii osteosteatomate effecta. 4to. Berol. 1829, with i»latc.s. 1 once found in a man who had been affected with amaurosis of$