Reflex ocular symptoms in nasal affections / by E. Gruening.

  • Gruening, Emil.
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[1896]
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    Reflex Ocular Symptoms in Nasal Affections.1 By E. GRUENING, M.D., N EW YORK. Reprinted from The Medical Record, January 30, 1886. In selecting this title for the paper of the evening, I de- sire to exclude from consideration ocular affections due to an extension of catarrhal disease of the Schneiderian membrane. Such affections are well known, and gener- ally conceded to exist. I wish to lay before you to-night the results of some clinical observations tending to show that certain groups of ocular symptoms may be looked upon as reflex neuroses, and furthermore, that the source of the ocular disturbance may be found in certain altera- tions of the nasal structures. At present, the view is held by many that asthma, hemicrania, supra- and infra- orbital neuralgia are in many instances but neurotic phe- nomena due to reflex nasal irritation. Voltolini demonstrated that asthma may be relieved by the removal of a nasal polypus. Hack mentions a series of two hundred and forty cases of hemicrania and eighty- seven cases of asthma cured by the galvano-caustic de- 1 Read before the Section of Ophthalmology in November, 1885. and before the Academy of Medicine in January, 1886.