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Identifier: transactions03opht (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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lterations in texture andcolour, and concerning the exact nature of them one cando little more than guess. The eyes have been examined several times duringthree months, but no alteration has taken place eitherlocally or with regard to the vision. Patient now reads :—R. eye = f § and with + 1 D. Sn.H ; L. eye = f§ and two letters of f§, and with -f1 D. Sn. U, but not fluently. (July 0th, 1883.) 8. A case of emhoUsm of the central artery of each retinaoccurring in the right eye nearly twelve years ago, in theleft eighteen months ago, with degenerative changes at themacula in each eye. By James E. Adams. (With Plate YII.) The case is interesting only as shelving certain patchesof choroido-retinitis in the maculae after embolism, whichsuggests the probability that similar changes may be rather DESCRIPTION OF PLATE VII. Plate VII shows the ophthalmoscopic appearances in the in-verted image in Mr. Adamss case of Embolism of both RetinalArteries (p. 114). From drawings by Miss Boole. to
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FOKEIGN BODY EMBEDDED AT THE FUNDUS. 115 frequent in cases where patients survive the occurrence ofthe blocking of the vessel for a sufiScient length of time,a supposition that will lead us to examine our old cases ofembolism carefully, after long intervals. Joseph S—, a miner, a^t. 61. The right eye becamesuddenly and totally blind on July 5tli; 1871, and hasremained so ever since, the left following in a preciselysimilar manner on August 24th, 1881. Present state.—Pupils act very slightly. Externalappearances normal. Media clear. He has no p. 1. Nocardiac murmur. History of slight rheumatic pains. Nogout or syphilis. The retinal arteries in each eye containscarcely any blood, and many of them are quite threadlike(see Plate YII). Here and there the margins of the veinspresent a distinct white band (old inflammatory changes),and one larger trunk in the left presents a beaded appear-ance. There are marked traces of old neuro-retinitis atthe disc margins, and each macula is occupied

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