Transactions . ,v .J^ewmaii j& C? chroiao .iith PECULIAR LINES IN THK CHOROID. ]67 12. Peculiar lines in the choroid in a case of loost-papillitic atrophy. By E. Nettleship. (Witli Plate VIII, fig. 2.) The drawing (PI. YIII, fig. 2) shows tlie erect image ofthe right fundus. The disc is pale, its margin in partsslightly hazy, the retinal veins still tortuous and ratherturgid, the retinal arteries somewhat shrunken. Visionis almost abolished (hand moving only). About eighteenmonths before the drawing was made the eye had passedthrough an attack of papillitis, but beyond the fact thatthis
Transactions . ,v .J^ewmaii j& C? chroiao .iith PECULIAR LINES IN THK CHOROID. ]67 12. Peculiar lines in the choroid in a case of loost-papillitic atrophy. By E. Nettleship. (Witli Plate VIII, fig. 2.) The drawing (PI. YIII, fig. 2) shows tlie erect image ofthe right fundus. The disc is pale, its margin in partsslightly hazy, the retinal veins still tortuous and ratherturgid, the retinal arteries somewhat shrunken. Visionis almost abolished (hand moving only). About eighteenmonths before the drawing was made the eye had passedthrough an attack of papillitis, but beyond the fact thatthis was well marked, no particulars have been kept. The peculiarity is the presence of a number of straightlines in or upon the choroid running parallel with oneanother nearly in the horizontal direction. These linesare longest and broadest at the yellow-spot region ; theyare equally numerous, though finer, to the nasal side of thedisc, and a few are seen above; they are all horizontal,not radiating from the d
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