A manual and atlas of medical ophthalmoscopy / by W.R. Gowers.

Date:
1879
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Credit: A manual and atlas of medical ophthalmoscopy / by W.R. Gowers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    congenital film extended over the upper half of the disc, and ended on one side in a reflected edge. To acquire a Imowlege of the exact appearance of these ocular changes, the reader is advised to study carefully the plates in the admirable atlas of Liebreich. In considering what may be learned regarding the condi- tions of the general system by observation of the fundus oculi, it will be convenient first to consider specially those intra-ocidar changes which are of general medical significance, viz., the changes in the vessels and the circulation; the changes, inflammatory and atrophic, in the optic nerve; and, more briefly, the alterations in the retina and choroid; and in the second place, the changes which are met with in special diseases of the nervous and general systems.