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Nashville Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology
SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS
follow-up study. In only 2 in the series of 48 were abnormal changes found in the fundus beyond the disc; nor even in these were complicating infections fully excluded; one of them, indeed, lacked a Wassermann test, ow ing to the limited laboratory facilities during the war. Incidentally, Dr. Robinson stated that in reviewing the rewritten his tories of these cases, Mr. Holmes Spicer had firmly called his attention to the tradition at Moorfields, cher ished since the days of Hutchinson, that the moderate use of alcohol ("three pints of stout" or "a glass or so or gin per diem," as some of the his tories read) retarded rather than aug mented the development of tobacco poisoning of the optic nerve, the feel ing in London being that too much stress was laid in America at the door of alcohol in these cases. DR. VIRGIL J. SCHWARTZ read the paper of the evening entitled, "Three Friends W h o Made Ophthalmologic History—Bowman, Donders, and von Graefe." WALTER E. CAMP,
M.D.,
Recorder.
NASHVILLE ACADEMY OF OPH THALMOLOGY A N D OTOLARYNGOLOGY. NOVEMBER 16,
1925.
DR. E. L. ROBERTS, Chairman.
Tubercle of the Iris. D R . FRED HASTY presented the case of a woman, aged 30 years, with tubercle of the iris. The patient's mother, father, two brothers, and three sisters were all living and well. She had had perfect health until about three and one-half months previously when she discovered that she had dim ness of vision in the right eye. This slowly cleared up, and one week later she had a hemorrhage into the anterior chamber of her right eye. Since then she has had six recurrent hemorrhages. Following the first hemorrhage she no ticed a small growth in the iris of the right eye. This gradually increased in size, until at the present time it was about 1 mm. in diameter. The mass
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was nonvascular and arose from the angle of the iris. There was no pain and the vision was normal and the eye was negative in all respects except for the new growth. A diagnosis of tubercle of the iris was made. T h e pa tient was given tuberculin treatment, and referred to the County Tubercu losis Hospital. Bilateral Congenital Aniridia With Dislocation of the Lens. DR. FRED HASTY presented a case.
Absolute Glaucoma.
showed a case. At the meeting of October 19, 1925, the following officers were elected: Dr. E. L. Roberts, Chairman, Dr. J. P. Crawford, Vice-Chairman, Dr. R. J. Warner, Secretary-Treasurer. DR. ROBERT SULLIVAN
R. J. WARNER,
Editor. DECEMBER 21,
1925.
DR. E. L. ROBERTS, Chairman.
Bilateral Dislocation of Lens. DR. E. B. CAYCE presented a case of bilateral dislocation of lens in a boy, age 11 years. Angioma. DR. E. B. CAYCE presented a case of angioma, upper lid, in a baby, age two months. Discussion. DR. HILLIARD WOOD sug gested the use of radium, and if that is not effective electrolysis should be tried. R. J. WARNER,
M.D.,
Editor.
MEMPHIS SOCIETY OF OPH THALMOLOGY A N D OTOLARYNGOLOGY. DECEMBER 8, 1925. D R . R. W. HOOKER, Presiding. Lipemia Retinalis.
DR. E. C. ELLETT presented a boy,
aged 21, who had had evidence of diabetes for two years. Routine ex aminations showed the condition some times seen in diabetes and ascribed to fat in the blood. The retinal veins and arteries looked similar, like* broad flat ribbons filled with a salmon pink fluid instead of the usual blood. T h e blood sugar was 335 m.g., per 1000 c. c . as
follow-up study. In only 2 in the series of 48 were abnormal changes found in the fundus beyond the disc; nor even in these were complicating infections fully excluded; one of them, indeed, lacked a Wassermann test, ow ing to the limited laboratory facilities during the war. Incidentally, Dr. Robinson stated that in reviewing the rewritten his tories of these cases, Mr. Holmes Spicer had firmly called his attention to the tradition at Moorfields, cher ished since the days of Hutchinson, that the moderate use of alcohol ("three pints of stout" or "a glass or so or gin per diem," as some of the his tories read) retarded rather than aug mented the development of tobacco poisoning of the optic nerve, the feel ing in London being that too much stress was laid in America at the door of alcohol in these cases. DR. VIRGIL J. SCHWARTZ read the paper of the evening entitled, "Three Friends W h o Made Ophthalmologic History—Bowman, Donders, and von Graefe." WALTER E. CAMP,
M.D.,
Recorder.
NASHVILLE ACADEMY OF OPH THALMOLOGY A N D OTOLARYNGOLOGY. NOVEMBER 16,
1925.
DR. E. L. ROBERTS, Chairman.
Tubercle of the Iris. D R . FRED HASTY presented the case of a woman, aged 30 years, with tubercle of the iris. The patient's mother, father, two brothers, and three sisters were all living and well. She had had perfect health until about three and one-half months previously when she discovered that she had dim ness of vision in the right eye. This slowly cleared up, and one week later she had a hemorrhage into the anterior chamber of her right eye. Since then she has had six recurrent hemorrhages. Following the first hemorrhage she no ticed a small growth in the iris of the right eye. This gradually increased in size, until at the present time it was about 1 mm. in diameter. The mass
129
was nonvascular and arose from the angle of the iris. There was no pain and the vision was normal and the eye was negative in all respects except for the new growth. A diagnosis of tubercle of the iris was made. T h e pa tient was given tuberculin treatment, and referred to the County Tubercu losis Hospital. Bilateral Congenital Aniridia With Dislocation of the Lens. DR. FRED HASTY presented a case.
Absolute Glaucoma.
showed a case. At the meeting of October 19, 1925, the following officers were elected: Dr. E. L. Roberts, Chairman, Dr. J. P. Crawford, Vice-Chairman, Dr. R. J. Warner, Secretary-Treasurer. DR. ROBERT SULLIVAN
R. J. WARNER,
Editor. DECEMBER 21,
1925.
DR. E. L. ROBERTS, Chairman.
Bilateral Dislocation of Lens. DR. E. B. CAYCE presented a case of bilateral dislocation of lens in a boy, age 11 years. Angioma. DR. E. B. CAYCE presented a case of angioma, upper lid, in a baby, age two months. Discussion. DR. HILLIARD WOOD sug gested the use of radium, and if that is not effective electrolysis should be tried. R. J. WARNER,
M.D.,
Editor.
MEMPHIS SOCIETY OF OPH THALMOLOGY A N D OTOLARYNGOLOGY. DECEMBER 8, 1925. D R . R. W. HOOKER, Presiding. Lipemia Retinalis.
DR. E. C. ELLETT presented a boy,
aged 21, who had had evidence of diabetes for two years. Routine ex aminations showed the condition some times seen in diabetes and ascribed to fat in the blood. The retinal veins and arteries looked similar, like* broad flat ribbons filled with a salmon pink fluid instead of the usual blood. T h e blood sugar was 335 m.g., per 1000 c. c . as