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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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and lit the gas, hefound that there was a dense black spot in the center of itsfield of vision. On the loth of September he noticed that the left scotomahad become reduced. In his own words he said, to a lot offaint spots which, as near as I can explain, look like dropsof water slowly flowing down a pane of glass, one trying tobeat the other. On the same day, without warning, a dim representation ofNo. 21, seen on the 24th of June, appeared before the right eyeand lasted for about twenty-four hours. On the following morning he noticed that the large, dimscotoma before the right eye, which had been so persistentand fixed during the summer months, recurred ; but, curiously,its edges seemed broken away and lost. Through this area,and in no other position in the field of fixation, was there anycomplaint of micropsia. The scotoma gradually became faintlymottled, and at last decreased in density, until a drawing, madeon the 9th of October, .showed that the area was barely dis-cernible. PSK?
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Left eye. Oliver : Double CJiorio-Retinitis. 625 At this visit he brought a sketch of figure E, which, as hesaid, showed the shape, size, and shade of the spots in the lefteye. There is no motion whatever, After a most rigorous examination, no cardiac or renal le-sion could be determined. Vision in the right eye had risento one-half of normal, while that in the left eye was normal.When the patient regarded any object fixedly with the left eye,the image of the object became alternately larger and smaller,and seemed distorted upon its edges just as though it wereviewed through a convex lens which is successively elevatedand depressed. The subretinal hemorrhage in the left eyewas beginning to manifest evidences of beginning absorption.- Two weeks later the ophthalmoscope showed that therewere a few faint pigment-spots in the right retina, and that theminute hemorrhage in the left subretinal tissue was nearlygone, the retina in the macular region being elevated and de-pressed into several

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