Optic nerve atrophy from toxic agents / by G. E. de Schweinitz.

  • George Edmund de Schweinitz
Date:
1896
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    tral scotoma for red. Death resulted from carbuncle. 3. Vossius:^^ The patient safPered from alcohol- amblyopia, had at one time a central scotoma, and died hemiplegic and aphasic. 4. Bunge:^^ The patient was a tabetic and also probably under the influence of tobacco and alcohol. 5. Uhthoff: (8ix cases.) The first patient was a chronic alcoholic, with marked blanching of the tem- poral halves of the papilla, but without record of scotoma, who died from the effects of alcoholism. The second was a patient with atrophic discoloration of the temporal halves of the papillae, absolute cen- tral scotoma, who died in an attack of delirium tre- mens from intercurrent pneumonia. The third was a patient with atrophy of the temporal halves of the papillse, who suffered from delirium tremens suc- ceeded by dementia paranoica and died a lunatic. It was not possible to test the visual fields. The fourth was a chronic alcoholic who died of meningitis dur- ing an attack of delirium tremens. No visual fields were obtained, but the temporal halves of the papillse were atrophic. The fifth was a confirmed drunkard, with atrophic papillse but without demonstrable color scotoma, who died phthisical, and who suffered also from interstitial hepatitis. The sixth was a drunkard with atrophic temporal halves of the papillae without defect in the color fields, who died of pulmonary edema supervening on general paralysis of the insane. 6. Wildbrand:^^ The patient suffered from poly- arthritis and central scotoma which developed sud- denly; death resulted from cardiac failure. 7. Theodore Sachs The patient was an alcohol- tobacco amblyopic, who had typical central scotomata and who died from intercurrent pneumonia during nephritis. 8. Stoltzing:^* The patient was a tobacco-alcohol amblyopic, who died from pleurisy, fatty heart and atheroma of the aorta; scotomata are not mentioned or described. 12 Bericht iiber die Versammlung der Ophthalmolog. Gesellschaft. xxii, Heidelberg, 1892, p. 84.
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