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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
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Fig. 45. Fig. 45. Disease of the Macula Lutea of the Retinaresulting from a High Grade of Myopia.—At a one sees thereddening and slight swelling of the nasal portion of thenerve that are apt to develop when eyes of this kind aresubjected to strain, and which probably represent a func-tional hyperemia, although they are regarded by some asinflammatory conditions. The disk also is somewhat obliqueand surrounded by an atrophied portion of the choroid in theform of a meniscus or cone. The pigmentation of the eye-ground is somewhat ftiinter than normal. The macular dis-ease manifests itself in yellowish-red spots and a somewhatirregular pigmentation. The middle of the fovea is occupiedby a black spot surrounded by small hemorrhages. Fig. 45, h, represents a more advanced stage of the disease,recognized by an increase in the pigmentation and the pres-ence of white spots, which indicate that the choroid is involvedand atrophied in places, exposing the sclera. A few palespots extend as far

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