A case of lead poisoning presenting some unusual eye symptoms / by Casey A. Wood.

  • Wood, Casey A. (Casey Albert), 1856-1942.
Date:
[1897]
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    A CASE OF LEAD POISONING PRESENTING SOME UNUSUAL EYE SYMPTOMS. By CASEY A. WOOD, M.D., OF CHICAGO; PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY IN THE POST-GRADUATE MED- ICAL SCHOOL. Although ocular symptoms, as a result of plum- bic intoxication, have been recognized and studied for over two centuries attention has been chiefly di- rected to the visual defects arising from the fundus changes, especially inflammation or atrophy of the optic nerve. In recent years a transient amblyopia, not attended by any lesion visible to the eye and comparable to the temporary blindness of uremia or diabetes, has also been recognized and frequently re- ported. Various forms of retinitis, too, have been observed, and these are believed by Parisotti1 to be due to a form of endovasculitis which he terms en- darteritis saturnina obliterans. Another class, possibly rarer than the foregoing, includes instances where the intoxication produces paralysis of one or more of the extrinsic ocular mus- cles. The following report is of such a case: Jacob B., aged forty-nine, has steadily followed the occupation of painter for sixteen years, doing both inside and outside work during that time. He has enjoyed fair health and the only history of illness, apart from the attacks about to be described, is that of typhoid fever many years ago, followed by a large carbuncle in the lumbar region. He is mar- ried and has had five children, of whom one died at six months of age. There is not now any evidence of syphilis in his own person or that of his wife or