A treatise on headache and neuralgia : including spinal irritation and a disquisition on normal and morbid sleep / by J. Leonard Corning ; with an appendix, Eye strain, a cause of headache, by David Webster.

  • Corning, J. Leonard (James Leonard), 1855-1923.
Date:
1890 [©1888]
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Credit: A treatise on headache and neuralgia : including spinal irritation and a disquisition on normal and morbid sleep / by J. Leonard Corning ; with an appendix, Eye strain, a cause of headache, by David Webster. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    single binocular vision in reading. Tenotomy of left externus, leaving orthophoria. June 21.—The head- ache she had yesterday before the operation was for- gotten after it, and has not come on since. August 27.—She has done her usual work as gov- erness since last here. She has experienced none of the ''drawing feeling in the back of the head and neck, but she has a tired feeling. Orthophoria; ab- duction 10°; adduction 12°. Case IX.—Win. H., age 44, married, merchant, came May 23, 1887. Mr. H. was troubled with headache all his life, and supposed it was due to indigestion until three years ago, when it was suggested that it might be due to eye-strain. He then went to Dr. Stevens, who gave him glasses and exercised his ocular muscles with prisms. The glasses relieved his headaches ; but recently he has had a relapse. If he reads at all with- out his glasses, or even three minutes with them, his head is wrong, and he becomes intensely sick all over, but does not vomit. His general health is good, his bowels regular; he sleeps well. He never had any disease except malaria. K. V = -§# ; Hm -^ ; L. V = fg - ; f£ + with + ¥V c, ax. 90°. Esophoria 3° to 6°; in accommodation 15°; no hyperphoria ; ab- duction 2°; adduction 23°; sursumduction, E. 0°, L. 0°. His glasses are prisms, base out. May 24.—Tenotomy of left internus, leaving orthophoria. September 20.—Mr. M. thinks he was helped very much by the operation, but is not entirely relieved. September 21.—Esophoria 6°; abduction 2°; adduc- tion 22°; tenotomy of right internus. October 10.—No headaches since the last operation; wears no glasses, and uses his eyes with comfort; orthophoria. Case X.—Dr. W. S. K., age 32, consulted Dr. C.