A case of methyl-alcohol amaurosis, the pathway of entrance of the poison being the lungs and the cutaneous surface / by G. E. de Schweinitz.

  • De Schweinitz, G. E. (George Edmund), 1858-1938.
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[1901]
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    A CASE OF METHYL-ALCOHOL AMAUROSIS, THE PATH- WAY OF ExNTRANCE OF THE POISON BEING THE LUNGS AND THE CUTANEOUS SURFACE. By G. E. DE SCHWEINLTZ, A. M., M. D. PHIL A DELPHI A. The toxic action of methyl-alcohol in recent times has attracted . much attention, and its influence upon the eye has been the subject of many papers and some experimental work. The report of the first case of methyl-alcohol amblyopia is usually attributed to Mengin,^ but as Harold Gifford^ points out, Mengin's case had previously been reported by Viger,^ so that to him really belongs the priority of describ- ing this agent as a cause of amblyopia. The next case^ on record appears to be one described by Dr. F. Van Fleet,^ followed a year later by the case of MacCoy and Michael.*^ In 1899 the literature of the subject has been enriched by the cases recorded by Kuhnt,^ Moulton,^ Gifford,^ Callan,i« Patillo and Casey Wood,^^ J. F. Raub,^^ and others. More recently additional cases of this form of amblyopia have appeared in this country and abroad. In most of the instances thus far reported the methyhc alcohol has been consumed by man as a substitute for ordinary alcohoHc drinks. In a few instances, however, for example, the two reported by Patillo ^ Recueil d'Ophtlialmologie, 3 serie, i, 1879, p. 663. 'The Ophthahiiic Record, VIII, 1899, p. 44i- ^ L'Anne medical, 2, 1877, p. 105. *I think the report of the first case of methyl-alcohol amblyopia in this country was made by Dr. J. M. Ray, of Louisville, Ky. He examined his patient in March, 1896, and described the case to a local- medical society at the time, but the report never appeared in any journal. He has been kind enough to send me the notes of this case, and another one that he saw in 1899, which has not yet been published. 'Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital Reports, 1897, Vol. IV, p. iS- 'Medical Record, May 28, 1898 ^Zeitschr. f. Augenheilk, Vol. I, 1899. ' The Ophthalmic Record, VIII, 1899, p. 335- ^ Loc. cit. '° Quoted by Ward Holden, Archives of Ophth. XXVIII, 2, 1899, 129. ''Ophthalmic Record, VIII, 1899, p. 599- Ophthalmic Record, VIII, 1896, p. 619.