On the nature, symptoms, and treatment of the different species of amaurosis, or gutta serena.

  • Stevenson, John, 1778-1846?
Date:
1821
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Credit: On the nature, symptoms, and treatment of the different species of amaurosis, or gutta serena. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a perfect and inveterate gutta serena of both eyes, the iris in each of which was affected most readily by different degrees of light admitted to it, and notwithstanding this presumptive evidence of a sound state of the retina she had not, for many years, been conscious of the slightest perception even of the most brilliant light. Several si- milar instances have occurred to my obser- vation, more especially in those young per- sons who are afflicted with the congenital disease, in whom the ball of the eye is al- most constantly observed to roll about in an unsteady and involuntary manner. Janin, Richter, and several other writers, have noticed the occasional mobility of the iris in certain instances of Gutta Serena. Schmucker twice witnessed this peculiarity. The Baron de Wenzel attempted to explain the cause of this phenomenon, by supposing that it is owing to the ciliary nervous fila- ments which are distributed to, and confer