A description of the appearance of the human eye in health and disease as seen by the ophthalmoscope. Fifth series. Syphilis / by C. Bader.

  • Bader, Charles.
Date:
[between 1860 and 1869?]
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Credit: A description of the appearance of the human eye in health and disease as seen by the ophthalmoscope. Fifth series. Syphilis / by C. Bader. 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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    A DESCRIPTION OP THE APPEAEANCES OP THE HUMAN EYE IN HEALTH AND DISEASE AS SEEN BY THE OPHTHALMOSCOPE. FIFTH SERIES.— SYPHILIS. By C. BADER. General Remarks. Figs. 1, and 5 of the plates refer to inherited sypliilrs. Such appearances are frequently observed in persons who have sulFered from syphilitic (so-called interstitial or strumous) coriieitis (the form of corneitis so well described by Mr. Jonathan Hutchinson in the ^Ophthalmic Hospital Reports’for 1857 to 1859). Figs. 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 represent changes observed in the eyes of persons suffering from “ secondary syphilis.” The proofs of the intraocular changes represented in the plates being owing to syphilis are altogether of an empirical kind. The patients, in whom they were observed, suffered from syphilis. In inherited as well as in secondary syphilis the final effects of the morbid changes are those of atrophy, t. e. destruction of more or less of the textures affected. The general features of intraocular syphilitic changes are those of temporary hyperaemia round a focus of effusion,” ‘‘ lymph formation,” temporary loss of transparency, frequently with rupture of blood-vessels, and finally atrophic changes—a repetition of what so often is observed in the cornea and iris. Opacities in the vitreous chamber are frequent, and may be so considerable as to hide the retina, &c., from view.