A second note upon homonymous hemiopic hallucinations / by Frederick Peterson.

  • Peterson, Frederick, 1859-1938.
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[1891]
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Credit: A second note upon homonymous hemiopic hallucinations / by Frederick Peterson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    Reprinted from the New York Medical Journal for January 81, 1891. A SECOND NOTE UPON HOMONYMOUS HEMIOPIC HALLUCINATIONS.* By FREDERICK PETERSON, M.D. In Insanity.—In the New York Medical Journal for August 30, 1890, I described a case of chronic delusional insanity, or paranoia, in which the visual hallucinations present (ghosts, skeletons, faces, etc.) had the remarkable peculiarity of always appearing in the right fields. There was no hemianopsia. The closing paragraph of that de- scription was as follows : “Unilateral hallucinations of one eye alone, or nni-ocular hallucinations, have been described by several authors as oc- curring in the insane, but, so far as I know, this is the first ref- erence that has been made to visual hallucinations of the char- acter herein mentioned, and for which I can find no simpler name than that which forms the title of this article.” Although this would seem to be the first reference that has been made to homonymous hemiopic hallucinations oc- curring in the insane, it is not the first time that such hal- * Read before the New York Neurological Society, December 2, 1890. Copyright, 1891. by D. Appleton and Company. It*.*