On the influence of the cervical portions of the sympathetic nerve and spinal cord upon the eye and its appendages, illustrated by clinical cases, with observations / by John W. Ogle.

  • Ogle, John W. (John William), 1824-1905.
Date:
1858
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Credit: On the influence of the cervical portions of the sympathetic nerve and spinal cord upon the eye and its appendages, illustrated by clinical cases, with observations / by John W. Ogle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Case 4 was under Dr. Gairdner's own treatment, and was one in which a contraction of the pupil was associated with thoracic aneurism. Case 5 was also under Gairdner's observation, and was a well-marked case of innominate aneurism. The right pupil was contracted as compared with the left. The patient, a woman, is probably still alive. Case 6 is published at large^ by Dr. Williamson, of Leith. In this the contracted pupil (a symptom which continued to exist even after death) along with certain neuralgic symptoms was considered during life to be the means of diagnosis between an aneurism and aortic valve disease. After death, intra-thoracie aneurism was found on the same side as the contracted pupil. This case has lately been alluded to in connexion with the subject of contracted pupil as conse- quent upon aneurismal pressure, at p. 483 of the ' Archives generales,' April, 1858. Case 7, published by Dr. Banks, of Dublin, King's Pro- fessor of Physic,^ was that of a woman, set. 24, who had a con- tracted pupil in connexion with a supposed aneurism in the upper and left part of the chest. The sight of the affected eye was good, and the contraction of the pupil, though constant as compared with the pupil of the other eye, was susceptible of change, like its fellow, according to the amount of light per- mitted to fall upon the eye. The patient left the hospital in the same condition, and from a letter kindly sent to me, April 23d, 1857, I learnt from Dr. Banks that he had seen nothing of the patient since her dismissal from the hospital. but that a post-mortem examination could not be obtained. He also states that in this case the peculiar symptoms were at the last in abeyance, the pupils being equally small. 1 'Edinburgh Monthly Journal,' January, 1857, p. 614. ^ 'Dublin Hospital Gazette,' January 15th, 1856. This case has been quoted in the 'Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science,' vol. xxv, p. 438.