On some forms of headache / by R. H. Elliot.

  • Elliot, Robert Henry, 1864-1936.
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[1907]
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    Reprinted from The Indian Medical Gazette, Vol. (No. 11, Nov. 1907). ON SOME FORMS OF HEADACHE.* By R. H. ELLIOT, m.b. (Lond.), F.R.OS., MAJOR, I.M.S., Ophthalmic Surgeon, Madras. There are a large number of forms of head- ache, which are quite unconnected with any defect in the eyes. Again, there are many forms of headache, which owe their cause to easily diagnosable eye affections, such as Glaucoma, Iritis, etc. With neither of these does this paper attempt to deal. Lastly, I come to the large class of cases in which headache and other evidences of astheno- pia are to be accounted for either by the presence of an error in refraction or by what is now known as an error in the muscular balance of the eyes. It is only to a part of this class even that I desire to direct your attention. The larger errors of refraction lead to a sensible diminution of visual acuity, and at once direct the attention of the parents, the friends or of the patients themselves to the cause of th«* • Being a paper read at a meeting of the South India Branch of B. M. A. e—1