On squinting, paralytic affections of the eye, and certain forms of impaired vision / by Carsten Holthouse.

  • Holthouse, Carsten, 1810-1890.
Date:
1858
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Credit: On squinting, paralytic affections of the eye, and certain forms of impaired vision / by Carsten Holthouse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    seems to be partly owing to the features inclining to the right side (a congenital malformation, and not due to paralysis). The difference which for- merly existed between the two sides of the tongue is now scarcely apparent, the left half having lost its flatness and become plump and round like the opposite. Palsy of the muscles supplied by the motor oculi nerve is not an unfrequent occurrence, and is sometimes seen in connection with syphilitic disease affecting the bones of the base of the skull; but a similar condition of the abductor muscle of the eye and its nerve, from a like cause, is comparatively rare; while the simultaneous paralysis of the muscles of the tongue on the same side, invests this case with an unusual degree of interest. That the sixth and the ninth cere- bral nerves were similarly and from a like cause affected, and that this cause was the syphilitic poison, I think no one who reads this case will doubt. The impairment of vision which was here observed always accompanies paralysis of any of the recti muscles, and is, I believe, due to the eye being thrown out of focus by the paralysis;