Ophthalmic Year Book Volume 8 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...colors, obtained by means of a photographic device. With light of equal intensity, the reaction of the pupil was very much greater at the violet end of the spectrum, and practically absent at the red end. Word Blindness.--Claiborne saw two cases of congenital word blindness. In one the patient read letters fluently, but with the exception of one or two very simple words had quite failed to learn to read. In the second case there was inability to learn to recognize individual letters. Fisher's four cases, including three boys and one girl, all showed a marked inability to learn to read. The father and three brothers of one of the bovs had suffered from a similar defect. All the cases seemed normal in other respects. In McCready's case the difficulty in recognizing words was associated with stuttering, which had originated in fright at the age of 10 years. An apparently successful reeducation was begun by teaching the boy to use the left hand, as advised by Claiborne. In the case seen by Heiligtag, a compound fracture of the left parietal bone at its junction with the occipital resulted in siibcortical aJexia, associated with slight right homonymous limitation of the visual fields, and disturbances of the labyrinth. The reading of letters and words was impossible. Numbers were read to three columns of figures, and the patient could write. The paper by Doyne, dealt Avith in the preceding paragraph, also discusses word-blindness, suggesting that the condition is wrongly referred to as a disease, since it is really due only to a lack of brain capacity in a certain direction. EYEBALL MlCROPHTHALMOS AND ANOPHTHALMOS.--ScalillCl S3W enoi'-mous hydrocephalus in a child 8 months old. One eye was buph-thalmic, the other microphthalmic. The cornea in the...