Cases in ophthalmic practice : with notes and observations / by Edward Nettleship.

  • Nettleship, Edward, 1845-1913.
Date:
[1890?]
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Credit: Cases in ophthalmic practice : with notes and observations / by Edward Nettleship. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    April 3rd.—Iodide increased from five to ten grains. 17th.—V. much better all day. 18th.—V. failed again. 2Sth.—Has now taken mercury for ten weeks at least, with the exception of two intervals each of about a week. Omit mercury and iodide for two weeks. May lUh.—V. barely letters of 16 J. Pupils still large and sluggish. Mercury resumed. I did not see her again until I - began work at St. Thomas's, when I found her attending among the old cases. She had not, whilst at St. Thomas's, taken anti- syphilitics. Her sight and the ophthalmoscopic changes are about the same as when I saw her last a year ago. Still subject to variations of sight. Case 2.—Severe symmetrical disease of Vitreous with Choroi- ditis, and probably BetinitiSy at an early stage of Secondary Syphilis. Keratitis punctata in one eye ; Iritis following the deep-seated disease in the other. Cortical dotted Cataract. Nea^iy two years treatment hy mercury and iodide; conditioii not permanently im- proved. Mary 0 , 50, married, a laundress, had syphilis from her husband early in the spring of 1876 with sore throat, sore tongue, and a few spots on the arms. On Jiiiie Vdth she came to the South London Ophthalmic Hospital, complaining that for three months she had had a flittering or cobweb before her sight. There were many bald patches on her tongue, and a few dusky stains on the fore- arms (but more on the backs than the fronts). y j K. eye, 20 Jaeger. * 1L. eye, counts fingers, but only by moving her head about. Pupils act slightly. R. eye.—Vitreous full of large floating bodies. Slight keratitis punctata, with brownish dots placed rather above the centre of the cornea. A few peripheral strise in the lens. L. eye.—Vitreous as in E. Many striae and numerous small specks in the cortex of the lens, extending over the pupillary area. No iritis nor keratitis punctata. The fundus can be seen in both eyes, but very dimly. June 24:th.—She thinks her sight worse, The vitreous was