Intra-ocular disease : an interesting case in diagnosis : read before the Medical Society of the County of Albany, N.Y. / by C.A. Robertson.

  • Robertson, Charles A. (Charles Archibald), 1829-1880.
Date:
1878
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Credit: Intra-ocular disease : an interesting case in diagnosis : read before the Medical Society of the County of Albany, N.Y. / by C.A. Robertson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AN INTERESTING CASE IN DIAGNOSIS Read before the Medical Society of the County of Albany, February 14th, 1877. BY C. A. ROBERTSON, A. M., M. D., of Albany, N. Y., MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN OPHTHALMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, AND OF THE INTERNATIONAL, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Ophthalmic and Aural Surgeon of the Eye and Ear Relief, at the Albany Hospital, and at Troy, N. Y. On the 16th day of September last, Miss , aged twenty-one, came to my offi.ee with her brother, who gave me a brief state- ment of her case, that was more fully detailed by the patient her- self at subsequent interviews. The history I received was, that in the latter part of April last, she left her residence, where she was engaged in teaching, to pass a Saturday and Sunday with friends residing some ten miles dis- tant on the line of a connecting railroad. On Saturday morning she observed that everything wavered and glimmered, and she saw different colors play before her eyes. She took up a book, and found it impossible to read on account of the wavering light. There was no pain, but a queer feeling, a sensation of unusual character. Does not think that one eye was any differently affected, at the time, from the other; only remembers that both eyes were used simultaneously, and that she was unable to read. She was not aware of any unusual circum-