Certain changes in the vessels and vascular coats of the eye which are of diagnostic and prognostic value in general disease / by G. E. de Schweinitz.

  • De Schweinitz, G. E. (George Edmund), 1858-1938.
Date:
[1900]
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Credit: Certain changes in the vessels and vascular coats of the eye which are of diagnostic and prognostic value in general disease / by G. E. de Schweinitz. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    course and caliber of the veins, together with signs of mechanical pressure where veins and arteries cross. (5) These retinal-vessel changes may be present when ordinary physical examination does not reveal the signs of endarterial change in the surface vessels of the body generally. One of America's most distinguished medical teachers was wont to say: Symptoms are the surface play of disease, which, if cor- rectly interpreted, lead the physician to appreciate the therapeutic needs of the affected organs. Such a surface play, in so far as one organ is concerned, and largely in relation to the affection of one tissue, I have ventured to exhibit. When I remember the long line of my able predecessors in this evening's function, the distinguished men who have graced and now grace your Faculty, and their in- valuable contributions to medicine and surgery, I am distinctly depressed by the imperfections of this presentation. Still, as the late Dr. Goodell, quoting the Caliph Omar, was wont to say, Two things come not back—the sped arrow and the spoken word. And I am comforted, for the sped arrow was found in the heart of an oak, but the spoken words in the hearts of friends.