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Title: Atlas and epitome of ophthalmoscopy and ophthalmoscopic diagnosis
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Haab, O. (Otto), b. 1850 De Schweinitz, G. E. (George Edmund), 1858-1938
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Publisher: Philadelphia : W.B. Saunders
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a small patchof similar streaks just beginning to form. The rest of theeye-ground is without notable lesion. bj Left Eye.— F= counting fingers at 50 cm. The opticdisk is round, the atrophic area being more decided abovethan elsewhere. It is surrounded by a patch of superficialchoroidal atrophy and pigment disturbance. Everywherethroughout the eye-ground are numerous anastomosing brown-ish and reddish-brown streaks, of a character similar to thosefound in the other eye, but evidently at a more advancedperiod of their formation. The macular region and temporalhalf of the eye-ground are occupied by a large vertically ovalplaque of choroidal atrophy streaked with black pigment.Bordering this below, and between it and the disk are broadreddish bands, somewhat resembling exposed choroidal ves-sels, of which, in some instances, they are representations.It is evident that the process in the left, which is the one firstaffected, represents a further advanced stage than that in theright eye.
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Fig. 37, h. Changes in the Eye-ground in Arteriosclerosis —The left eye-ground represented is that of a heavily built floridwoman, aged sixty-five, who since 1890 suffered much frombronchitis of the influenza type. At night she is somewhatasthmatic and complains of being rheumatic; she is muchtroubled with drowsiness. The capillaries on her face aresomewhat distended over the bridge of the nose and on thecheek-bones. The radial artery is a little rigid to the touch,and more rigid upon the left than upon the right side. Thetemporal arteries are plainly visible, although not greatlydistended. The urine has a low specific gravity and containsa trace of albumin and occasionally a hyaline cast. The vision of the eye is f. Ophthalmoscopically, the fol-lowing lesions are evident: Edema of the nasal margin of thedisk , light-colored, somewhat tortuous arteries, the uppertemporal artery being markedly and unevenly narrowed andconstricted, and bordered by one or two old extravasations;distend

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