An uncommon congenital anomaly in the vitreous chamber and the inner membranes of both eyes / by Charles J. Kipp.

  • Kipp, Charles John.
Date:
1904
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Credit: An uncommon congenital anomaly in the vitreous chamber and the inner membranes of both eyes / by Charles J. Kipp. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    \ Reprinted from American Ophfhalmological Society Transactions, iqo4.'\ AN UNCOMMON CONGENITAL ANOMALY IN THE VITREOUS CHAMBER AND BRANES OE BOTH EYES. MEM- (With three colored By CHARLES J. Newark, N. The drawings shown here are taken from both eyes of a boy ten years of age. He was born in this country; both parents are natives of Italy. He has eight brothers and sisters, all of whom, as well as the parents, have normal eyes and are in good health. The boy is well developed, and apparently without other defect. Intellectually he is decidedly deficient. The right eye is of nor- mal form, and the eye socket seems to be of normal size. He can move the eye in all directions without difficulty, but forced abduction causes violent nystagmatic oscillations in the horizontal meridian. Horizontal nystagmus is also produced by attempts at examination of the eye, and by almost anything that excites him. His vision is greatly impaired. He counts figures at about ten feet with either eye. The visual field can not be made out on account of the boy’s mental deficiency. His parents tell me that his vision has never been better than it is now, and that he has had at no time an inflammation of either eye, or that the eyes have ever been injured accidentally. He came to the hospital at the request of his teacher, who found out that he was partially blind.