Failure of sight from railway and other injuries of the spine and head : its nature and treatment, with a physiological and pathological disquisition into the influence of the vaso-motor nerves on the circulation of the blood in the extreme vessels / by Thomas Wharton Jones.

  • Jones, Thomas Wharton, 1808-1891.
Date:
1869
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Credit: Failure of sight from railway and other injuries of the spine and head : its nature and treatment, with a physiological and pathological disquisition into the influence of the vaso-motor nerves on the circulation of the blood in the extreme vessels / by Thomas Wharton Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    left leg, and a feeling of tightness or constriction. All these symptoms are worst on first rising in the morning. He walks with great difficulty without support. He can stand on the right leg, but if he attempts to do so on the left, it immediately bends and gives way under him. The spine is tender on pressure and on percussion at the lower cervical, the middle dorsal, and lumbar regions. The pain is increased on moving the body in any direc- tion, but especially the antero-posterior. Mr. Erichsen's diagnosis was—that in consequence of the concussion of the spine, inflammatory action of a chronic character had been set up in the Meninges of the Cord, that the partial paralysis of the left leg was probably dependent on disease of the cord itself, and that the cerebral symptoms indicated implication of the brain and its membranes. The next cases to be adduced are selected from among those which have come under my own observa- tion, and in which I had the opportunity of examining the condition of the eyes in detail. CASE V. Mr. W. T., aet. 37, was in a train which ran off the line, but was not conscious of having suffered any injury at the time. Next day, however, he fainted twice while dressing, and excruciating pain in the eyes came on. In consequence of this, Mr. T. made no attempt to exert the sight for a fortnight, and then on