Ophthalmic Record: A Monthly Review of the Progress of Ophthalmology, Volume 24

Front Cover
Fox, 1915
 

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 215 - ASCERTAINED. 1. Does the pupil habitually suffer from inflamed lids or eyes? 2. Does the pupil fail to read a majority of the letters in the number 20 line of the test types with either eye. 3. Do the eyes and head habitually grow weary and painful after study? 4. Does the pupil appear to be "cross-eyed"?
Page 215 - Is the pupil frequently subject to "colds in the head" and discharges from the nose and throat? 9. Is the pupil an habitual "mouth breather"? If an affirmative answer is found to any of these questions, the pupil should be given a printed card of warning to be handed to the parent, which should read something like this: CARD OF WARNING TO PARENTS.
Page 215 - Does the pupil fail to read a majority of the letters in the number 20 line of the Snellen's Test Types, with either eye? 3. Do the eyes and head habitually grow weary and painful after study? 4. Does the pupil appear to be "cross-eyed"?
Page 216 - ... this act upon the children then in attendance at school; and thereafter, as children enter school during the year, such tests must be made immediately upon their entrance.
Page 290 - ... dropped; in the body it is the liquids flowing about or through the eye. Just what are the chemical changes in the eye in clinical cases of glaucoma we are not able to say definitely; but there can be little doubt that the cause of this oedema is in essence the same as that of any of the more generalized ones. In a large number of glaucoma cases, circulatory disturbances in the eye which permit of an accumulation of carbon dioxide and the abnormal development of such acids as are a constant accompaniment...
Page 288 - A state of oedema is induced whenever, in the presence of an adequate supply of water, the affinity of the colloids of the tissues for water is increased above that which we are pleased to call normal.
Page 272 - The ninth annual convention of the Illuminating Engineering Society will be held at the New Willard Hotel, Washington, DC, September 20-23 inclusive.
Page 603 - Inasmuch as intestinal putrefaction certainly depends upon the activity of bacteria upon the foodstuffs in the intestines, there seems good reason to believe that these bacteria or their toxic products may be the cause of an inflammation of the uveal tract, exactly as bacteria from other foci of suppuration have a similar influence. In this sense,, therefore, gastrointestinal intoxications have a right to be included among the etiologic factors of uveitis.
Page 291 - The fall in tension is appreciable within ten minutes after the injection, and may be so great as to make the eye have a subnormal tension. The effect of such a subconjunctival injection lasts for from three to six days (or even more) and is accompanied by a relief of...
Page 200 - ... Group III. — Cases in which neighborhood manifestations are absent or inconspicuous though glandular symptoms are pronounced and unmistakable. Group IV. — Cases in which obvious distant cerebral lesions are accompanied by symptomatic indications of secondary pituitary involvement. Group V.

Bibliographic information