Manual of ophthalmology . ner as a solid rod would indent a rubbertube if it pressed upon it. In addition, there may be changes in thevenous walls, which are here and there bordered with white stripes,edema of the retina, especially around the disk, and retinal hem-orrhages. Such retinal vessel changes are indicative of arteriosclerosis inthe vessels of the carotid circulation, and probably indicate a similarchange in the smaller vessels of the brain. They are of seriousprognostic import, and their subjects are liable to apoplexy of thebrain, and often have chronic nephritis. Albuminuric retin
Manual of ophthalmology . ner as a solid rod would indent a rubbertube if it pressed upon it. In addition, there may be changes in thevenous walls, which are here and there bordered with white stripes,edema of the retina, especially around the disk, and retinal hem-orrhages. Such retinal vessel changes are indicative of arteriosclerosis inthe vessels of the carotid circulation, and probably indicate a similarchange in the smaller vessels of the brain. They are of seriousprognostic import, and their subjects are liable to apoplexy of thebrain, and often have chronic nephritis. Albuminuric retinitis.—Fully 25 per cent of the patients withchronic Brights disease, as they are examined in hospitals, aresooner or later in the course of this affection affected by one or other COMMONER OPHTHALMOSCOPIC APPEARANCES. 107 of the forms of retinitis. The retinal lesions occur most frequentlywith chronic interstitial nephritis, but are also in association withchronic parenchymatous nephritis, with secondary contracted kid-. T
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