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Identifier: transactions07ameruoft (find matches)
Title: Transactions
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: American Ophthalmological Society
Subjects: Ophthalmology
Publisher: New York (etc.)
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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ade while looking at the object with the right eye, exhibitedthe same characteristic metamorphosia and micropsia. Theophthalmoscope showed that the macular region was surroundedby a most curiously irregular and shining rim, the enclosed areabeing markedly depressed in places and quite pallid, especiallythe fovea itself. On the 18th of June the left scotoma, as shown in Figure C,appeared to be divided into four dull areas, which are in con-stant motion. The six vibrating, brilliantly-lighted spots havedisappeared. Three days later (21st of June), at 4 p.m., the sketch shownin No. 18 came into existence. As the patient wrote, Thisis the most peculiar shape and motion that I have had. It isabout as dark as drawing No. 5. The small central clear spot,which is fixed, is about as bright as an electric arc light. Thedark, comma-like area surrounding it moves around the lightspot in the direction shown by the arrows at about the rateof two revolutions per second. In a dark room the small III.
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^;^-vv^/t^- ^t^^Spi Right eye. Oliver : Double Chorio-Retinitis. 621 central spot appears jet black, and the large surrounding area ispearl-white in tint. The same motion persists. The appearance of the vertical lines at this time were so ex-traordinary that they are here reproduced in Plate III., No. 19. At this visit it was found that vision in the right eye hadtripled (3/40), while that of the left eye equaled full 5/5. Al-though there were some evidences of iodism, I continued thedrug just as before. On the following day (226. of June) the spot appeared as ifsplit into two sections, and the bright area had gone. (No.20.) The patients notes state : I cannot draw the shape ofthe spots unless I close the eye rapidly. They are in constantmotion, like the one shown in drawing No. 3. The vertical lines had undergone a marked change. Theywere not so broken, and the heavy, dense, horizontal thicken-ings were replaced by six broad, faint, horizontal smudges. The right fundus in the macular

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