Two cases of quinine amaurosis, from the practice of Dr. C.R. Agnew and Dr. D. Webster / by David Webster.

  • Webster, David, 1842-1923.
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[1883?]
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Credit: Two cases of quinine amaurosis, from the practice of Dr. C.R. Agnew and Dr. D. Webster / by David Webster. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TWO CASES OF QUININE AMAUROSIS, FROM THE PRACTICE OF DR. C. R. AGNEW AND DR. D. WEBSTER. By DAVID WEBSTER, M.D., PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY IN THE NEW YORK POLYCLINIC. Case i.—Mr. A. G. W., aged twenty-three, student of theology, native of Georgia, consulted us on account of asthenopia on January 17, 1880. He stated that seven years previously he had a congestive chill. Large quantities of quinine, say half a dozen large doses, were administered to him during the night, and the next morning he was totally blind. He is positive that he was unable to discern the light with either eye. This total blindness lasted only three or four hours, and then the sight began to return gradually in both eyes, and the next day he could distinguish ob¬ jects naturally. He thinks he has never seen as well since as be¬ fore. He does not remember having experienced any colored vision or subjective sensations of light. He says the physicians gave him the quinine in such large quantities because they thought he would not survive a second congestive chill. The remedy produced the desired effect, for he has not had a chill since. Right eye, vision = §$-, made f$ with -}- -fa c., axis 90°. Left eye, vision = f-J-; not improved by glasses. Ophthalmoscopically both eyes are normal, except that there are whitish bands running along the sides of the nasal branches of the left central retinal vein, and the optic disk of the same eye seems to be slightly paler than normal. Case 2.—Mrs. V., aged forty (?), came under observation January 13, 1880. Her history was given by her husband, a clergyman, as follows : She was ailing very much through the summer of 1879, having frequent attacks of cholera morbus, un- Reprinted from the Archives of Medicine, Vol. x, No. 3, December, 1883.