Transactions (1880) (14776356592)

Identifier: transactions08opht (find matches)

Title: Transactions

Year: 1880 (1880s)

Authors: Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom

Subjects: Ophthalmology

Publisher: London J. & A. Churchill

Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto

Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ears of age ; had married at nineteen, andhad had five children, four of whom were living. Hereyes had been perfectly healthy up to five weekspreviously, when, after a violent effort of retching in theevening, her eyes felt dazzling and every object waswavy. The next morning, on rising, she discoveredthat she could only see objects above the horizontalplane, and this defect was permanent. Ophthalmoscopicexamination revealed the large haemorrhage, with roundedcontours, close to the disc and to its outer side, shownin the drawing (Plate I). The patient was examinedby Dr. Godson, who pronounced her in the sixthmonth of pregnancy. The urine was carefully testedby Dr Bullur, and contained neither sugar nor albumen. DESCEIPTION OF PLATE I. Illustrating Mr. Powers Bowman Lecture. From a draw-ng by Miss Boole. E-etinal haemorrhage at the sixth month of pregnancy occur-ring immediately after severe retching, causing serious andpermanent impairment of vision. Trans. Ophth. Soc. Vol. VIII, PI I.

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M.Boole del. Danielssond Co, liOi. AND PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS OP THE SEXUAL ORGANS. 27 Puzzling cases occur every now and then in the earlymonths of pregnancy, which, however, point to embolismas the cause of the symptoms. For example, a patientaged twenty-eight, in the third month of pregnancy,suddenly noticed that vision was lost below a line runningobliquely from the temple to the nose in the right eye.The most careful examination by more than one ophthalmicsurgeon of repute failed to discover the slightest defector disease in the eye. She had had severe headaches,and also some choreic movements of the facial musclesand of the arm of the right side, three weeks previously.The urine was perfectly free from either albumen or sugar.It was remarkable that pressure on the globe gave distinctphosphenes on the non-sensitive part of the retina. Sixor seven years have elapsed, and the only change notice-able is that the disc on the right side is whiter than onthe left. In the later monthstransactions08opht

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