Transactions . nt cause,he experienced periodical attacks of dimness of vision andblindness. At the time of examination, the eye was blind, the pupilwas dilated, and the iris was immobile. Marked oedema, espe-cially in and around the macula lutea, existed. A typicalcherry-colored spot could be seen in the foveal region. Boththe retinal arteries and veins were small, the arterial currentsbeing thread-like and even invisible in places. The peri-vas-cular channels were thickened and opaque. No arterial pulsecould be produced upon pressure. The left eye was unaffected. No fundus-lesion could bedet
Transactions . nt cause,he experienced periodical attacks of dimness of vision andblindness. At the time of examination, the eye was blind, the pupilwas dilated, and the iris was immobile. Marked oedema, espe-cially in and around the macula lutea, existed. A typicalcherry-colored spot could be seen in the foveal region. Boththe retinal arteries and veins were small, the arterial currentsbeing thread-like and even invisible in places. The peri-vas-cular channels were thickened and opaque. No arterial pulsecould be produced upon pressure. The left eye was unaffected. No fundus-lesion could bedetected, and vision could be brought to normal by the employ-ment of a proper correcting lens. The patient was lost sight of until the month of May, 1894,when he voluntarily re-appeared that he might obtain a glassfor an increasing presbyopia. At this time, through the kind-ness of Dr. Harlan, the accompanying sketch of the fundus TheLa^e OphlhalmoscopieAppeapancesoP^upposed Embolism of rhe Central Rehnal Arlei^y. i DeBeck : Cataract Operations. 117 details, by Miss Margaretta Washington of this city, was ob-tained. The eye was blind and the pupil was undilated and media were clear and the fundus details as here shown,were those of optic nerve atrophy, gross perivasculitis, andretinal degeneration. Verbal descriptions of the late ophthalmoscopic appearanceof this variety of disease are so rare in ophthalmic literatureand the visual changes in the present instance are so charac-teristic, that they have been deemed worthy of an accurate andfaithful graphic representation. A FAMILY HISTORY OF IRIDEREMIA AND COL-OBOMA IRIDIS:—CATARACT OPERATIONS ONTWO MEMBERS (BROTHERS). BY DAVID DeBECK, , , CINCINNATI, O. In May 1893, Dr. L. F. Laudick of Salt Lake City (now atLima, O.), a graduate of the Medical College of Ohio, sent onto me two brothers by the name of Kemp, who lived at Lehi,Utah county, Utah, some 40 miles south of Salt Lake City. Iwas to examine these brother
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