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Identifier: transactions35opht (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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Miss G. N—. Left eye. May 18th, 1914. The first case occurred in a woman, 03t. 23 years, who was admitted to Queen Charlottes Hospital in the last stage of pregnancy. During the day or two that she remained in hospital her urine was found to contain much albumen, and she developed symptoms of eclampsia. She then complained of some defect of sight, and it was at the DETACHMENT OP THE RETINA. 145
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VOL. XXXV. 10 146 DETACHMENT OF THE RETINA. time taken to be a case of hemianopsia. After her baby had been delivered the sight failed still more, and Mr.Holmes Spicer was good enough to see the patient, as he, Mr. Stephenson, was away at the moment from London. Mr. Spicer found she had a detachment of each retina. The speaker saw the case a day or two later, and found she had a large globular detachment at the lower half of each retina. The detachment was not transparent; on the contrary, it was of a very dark colour, and strongly suggested that the underlying cause might have been bleeding from the choroidal vessels. That young woman, a week later, presented very few signs of detachment. There was only some rucking of the parts and some slight changes; and she eventually recovered;- vision with a full field, including even the field for blue. He knew the cure had persisted for many years. The second case was that of a young woman, a?t. 32years, who had attended the Ealing Hospital in October, 19

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