Impaired vision as the result of sunstroke / by A. B. Baker.

  • Baker, Albert Rufus, 1858-
Date:
1889
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    Ophthalmologic Society. In this paper it. is stated that no member present had ever heard of the sight being affected by sunstroke. As this statement appeared to be somewhat remark- able IadWessed letters to a number of physicians who owing to long experience in military and Ml Practice I thought would have met such casesTut all'the physicians to whom I addressed ££' letters answered that they had never met a case of blindness or impaired vision as the result °f Amongkie3 cases referred to me for expert ex- amination with impaired vision, alleged as the St of sunstroke, I met three cases of am- ple hypermetropia, two of senile cataract one of ^regressive myopia, one of detachment of the re- tina and one of disseminated choroiditis, prob- ably of syphilitic origin. Judging' from hese cases and from the almost entire absence of refer- ences'to this subject in medical literature, I am not surprised that many observers are inclined to doubt the existence of impaired vision as the re- sult of insolation. I wish to put on record the of this -use »^b^dtged,n3e9 examined April