Clinical notes of cases of neuralgia in connection with troubles of the accommodation of the eye / by Geo. T. Stevens.

  • Stevens, George T. (George Thomas), 1832-1921.
Date:
1877
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Credit: Clinical notes of cases of neuralgia in connection with troubles of the accommodation of the eye / by Geo. T. Stevens. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    but usually confined to the right side. The skin was extremely sensitive, and even the pressure of a comb in her hair was at times intolerable. She informed me that her mother, like herself, had been for many years a sufferer from intense neuralgia. She had never until quite recently experienced any trouble with her eyes, but now found that she could not see well at evening. She had never had pain in the eyes. I found that she could only read Snellen 200 at 20 feet with either eye without the assistance of a glass, but that with cylinder + 15 axis vertical she could read Snellen 100 at same distance. In other words, sight was increased two-fold. She was supplied with cylindrical glasses as indicated, which she wore and soon began to improve. February 14,1877, one year after the first interview, she called upon me to report her condition. She had rapidly recovered from the attack above described, and had not during the year suffered another. She had never known a similar freedom from attacks since her earliest recollections, and did not believe that since childhood she had before known a period of two months to pass without a severe attack. Her general health has also greatly improved since she has worn her glasses. Mrs. B., aged 40, consulted me in September, 1876, on account of a suppurative inflammation of the lachrymal sac. While affording such surgical relief as the case demanded, I learned the following history :