On changes in the fundus oculi in anaemia / by Robert Saundby.

Date:
1882
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    ON CHANGES IN THE FUNDUS OCULI IN ANEMIA. By Robert Saundby, M.D. Edin., M.R.C.P. Lond., Assistant Physician to the Birmingham General Hospital ; and Henry Eales, Surgeon to the Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital. The purpose of this paper is principally to record the results of a series of careful observations of the state of the fundus oculi in simple chronic anaemia, or chlorosis, as seen in young women, made in order to determine the frequency with which the changes, such as optic neuritis more especially, and the like, signalised by Hirschberg, Gowers, and others, may be found, and to discover whether these or any other changes occur insidiously, or without giving rise to subjective symptoms likely to direct the attention of the patient to the state of her eyes. These observations have extended over about eighteen months, as we were anxious to select only well-marked examples, and indeed in that period we have been able to collect only fifty cases. For purposes of comparison, and to aid the general inquiry, we have also examined a certain number of examples of anaemiadue to haemorrhage, both spontaneous and traumatic, of which we have notes of eleven cases. In all cases, with one or two exceptions, the fundus was examined after the pupil had been dilated by a mydriatic. We may as well state at once that the result of these observations does not indicate that structural changes are commonly present in simple chronic anaemia, but still Ophth. Review—Vol. I. No. 11. September, 1882.