A contribution to the study of the cortical localisation of vision : a case of quadrantic hemianopia with pathological examination / by C. E. Beevor and James Collier.

  • Beevor, Charles, E. (Charles Edward), 1854-1908.
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[1904]
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    upper limb lasted two days and then ceased, but sudden attacks of a similar sensation commencing in the fingers and running up the arm to the face occurred from time to time. There was no impairment of consciousness and no twitching of the muscles in these attacks. He was never aware of any defect in the visual field. When admitted the only abnormalities detectable were that he was blind in the upper left quadrant of the field of both eyes. The pupils reacted well to light and equally from the blind and seeing areas of the field. His vision was f in either eye, and he could read J2 when he was wearing his reading glasses. There was no subjective sensory disorder. He complained at times of severe occi- pital headache. There was some arterio-sclerosis and some signs of cardiac hypertrophy, but no albumen in the urine. The optic discs were pale. The retinal arteries showed marked silver wire change. There was no alteration in the appearance of the blind quadrants upon ophthalmoscopic examination as compared with that of the seeing quadrants. He was discharged in July, 1900. He remained in much the same condition till August 18, 1901, when his sight became much worse. Details of this visual affection were not obtainable, presumably it was the result of the recent softening found post mortem in the region of the chiasma and right optic tract. He became queer in his head and had three attacks of sudden unconsciousness without convulsion. Great physical feebleness came on and he was re-admitted in August, 1901. He was very restless and delirious, and difficult to examine. There was no motor or sensory paralysis. The optic discs seemed normal. The following day the respirations became grouped and he died on September 12, 1901. Pathological Abstract. The convexity of the brain showed no peculiarity. There was much patchy thickening of the internal carotid arteries and basilar artery, and of their branches.