The Journal of nervous and mental disease . Fig. i, Case I.—Bitemporal hemianopsia. The outer boundary of shading representsthe limits of the normal field ; the shading where vision was lost. healthy skin. Intellectual faculties good. No paralyses,but the gait labored, like that of a tired man. Vision ineach eye y2 ; both optic nerves gray, with shallow atrophicexcavations. There was typical bilateral temporal hemian-opsia with concentric limitation of the preserved dividing line almost touched the fixing point, butabove this inclined to the right, while below it inclinedto the left
The Journal of nervous and mental disease . Fig. i, Case I.—Bitemporal hemianopsia. The outer boundary of shading representsthe limits of the normal field ; the shading where vision was lost. healthy skin. Intellectual faculties good. No paralyses,but the gait labored, like that of a tired man. Vision ineach eye y2 ; both optic nerves gray, with shallow atrophicexcavations. There was typical bilateral temporal hemian-opsia with concentric limitation of the preserved dividing line almost touched the fixing point, butabove this inclined to the right, while below it inclinedto the left. Diagnosis.—As far as our present knowledge goes, thisform of hemianopsia can only be produced by a lesion ofthe optic chiasm in its anterior or posterior angles. Thepatient denied all venereal history, but in spite of this thelesion was probably a syphilitic deposit, otherwise he VARIOUS FORMS OF HEMIANOPSIA. 299 would have been unable to take the enormous doses ofantisyphilitic remedies which were given, taken, more-over, as they we
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