The Treatment of Shortsight (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. 1912 Excerpt: ...with normal field of vision; his sight is greater than 5. The left is blind and shows increased tension and smoky looking corneal opacity. III. (5.) A woman, aged thirty-four, came here November 6,1884, for admission. She was treated from her second to her ninth year for corneal inflammation, and now, since a few weeks ago, has begun to see worse, especially in the left eye. The right eye has a myopia of 13 D. Vision = Tv. Visual field moderately contracted concentrically. The left eye counts only fingers at of a metre excentrically. The field of vision is contracted all round, on the nasal side up to the fixation point. On both sides corneal spots, and myopic changes both in the centre and periphery of the fundus; in the left eye pressure cup in the disc. On November 10, 1884, iridectomy left eye. Normal operation. Narcosis. During the next two years the little remaining vision, in her left eye disappeared. In the fourth year after her operation the cornea had already become cloudy and bulged forward. The pupil dilated to maximal, the lens cataractous--in short, it presented the picture of a glaucomatous form of eye, while now pressure increased in the right eye. But the vision (Sn. 2' at 2J") and the field of vision remained much the same for years. It was not until January, 1897, that the contraction of the field became marked. The patient was admitted on October 4, 1897, but physostigmin drops not only contracted the wide pupil but markedly improved her vision. At her request she was dismissed. On January 12, 1898, she returned and sought for an operation. On January 14, 1898, iridectomy on right eye; narcosis normal. Healing without inflammation. February 2,1898, Sn. 1J' at 1J"; visual field: inward, 40; outward, 70; upward, 30; downwar...