The Boston medical and surgical journal . projected infolds. (By a mistake in en-graving, this is made at thelower and inner, instead ofthe lower and outer part.) vessel following thecourse of the folds, c. Bit offragment floating in the vi-q- OL treoas humor. Before touching upon the points of interest in this case, it maybe well briefly to allude to the present state of knowledge regard-ing retinal detachment. This affection has been very little spokenof by any authority before the introduction of the English and American text books, of the present day, referbut
The Boston medical and surgical journal . projected infolds. (By a mistake in en-graving, this is made at thelower and inner, instead ofthe lower and outer part.) vessel following thecourse of the folds, c. Bit offragment floating in the vi-q- OL treoas humor. Before touching upon the points of interest in this case, it maybe well briefly to allude to the present state of knowledge regard-ing retinal detachment. This affection has been very little spokenof by any authority before the introduction of the English and American text books, of the present day, referbut slightly to the disease which is the principal cause of retinalseparation, under the title of sub-choroidal dropsy. Mackenziesays that a watery effusion between the choroid and retina mayproduce a coarctation of the retina, which may project so farforwards as to be visible to the naked eye, and present appear-ances precisely similar to those described above. He furthermoreadds, that this has been mistaken for cataract, and a useless and. Case of Retinal Detachment. 115 painful attempt at depression made. He also quotes, on the im-portant authority of Panizza, a case in which an eye, unquestiona-bly with this disease, bad been extirpated, under the belief that itwaa cnccphaloid cancer. Within the last four or five years, the ophthalmoscope, and thatchiefly in the hands of German ophthalmists, has shown that de-tachment of the retina is not an uufrcqucnt morbid appearance inamaurotic affections. A simple separation is almost always theresult of a sub-retinal effusion, serous or sanguineous, from cho-roidal disease. In a proportion of perhaps 95 per cent., it ha3been found at the lower and outer part of the bottom of the eye,and hence the inference has been that it commences at the lowerpart. The last number of Oracles Ophtlialmological Archives,however, contains a short article upon this very subject, whichgoes to modify a little the views previously entertained. Fromthe fact th
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