The Ophthalmic Record Vol 8

Author : Casey A. Wood
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781397328465
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book The Ophthalmic Record, Vol. 8: September, 1899 (Classic Reprint) written by Casey A. Wood and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Ophthalmic Record, Vol. 8: September, 1899 The ocular condition may go long undetected, for subjective symp toms may, and generally do, remain absent until the case is very far advanced indeed. So long as the macula escapes and the disordered areas are individually of small extent the eye may be yet very seriously diseased before the vision is notably affected. The state of the eye is not infrequently quite unexpectedly discovered, which is often the patient's as well as the physician's first indication of any serious trouble. When vision does become affected it often rapidly goes down hill, though it seldom entirely disappears. The affection is generally binocular, though a number of monocular cases have been reported. I have myself seen only one such. This is mainly a disease'of late middle life, but cases are found in youth, even in childhood. These latter seem rather to indicate a dependence upon congenital syphilis. It is not really known in what proportion of cases of granular kidney albuminuria develops, though various statements have been'made. The ophthalmosc0pic' picture of typical retinitis albuminurica ought to be of interest to all_practitioners of medicine, because it reveals to the eye in the living body pathological changes which may be more marked in the retina than in other tissues, its vascular supply being terminal, without anastomoses, but is illustrative of lesions present in other and more vital organs, such as brain and kidney. These visible ocular changes have been best described by Mar cus Gunn, but I shall place them under five heads. One or other of them usually predominates, though they may all be present at the same time. They are: (i) vascular changes, (2) hemorrhages, (3) white spots, (4) exudations, (5) neuritis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.