The Cleveland Medical Gazette, Vol. 1, No. 5, March 1886Various
History
The Cleveland Medical Gazette, Vol. 1, No. 5, March 1886
Various
Medicine -- Periodicals; Surgery -- Periodicals
One who sees with one eye only always thinks he is nearer to the object
than he really is when reaching out for that object. It is always more
difficult for him to pour from a pitcher into a cup or glass if held a
little distance below it, hence the blind in one eye usually place the
nose of the pitcher in contact with the glass before pouring. The old
parlor trick of placing two pins in the wall and putting a cent on them
and directing the patient to stand across the room and then walk over to
the cent and knock it off with the outstretched finger without hitting
the pins, may be made use of as a test in simulated blindness, for with
one eye the patient always falls short of the mark the first time the
experiment is tried. The most simple method of detecting simulated
blindness in one eye is by noticing the movement of the pupil under the
influence of light. If an eye is blind, the light has little or no
effect upon it when the other eye is closed. The pupil is usually
dilated. It may be well to mention here that atropine dilatation is
generally wider than that due to amaurosis, and also that a cone of
light from a strong convex glass thrown upon the sound eye will contract
the pupil of the blind eye if the dilatation is not due to atropine.
Simulated blindness in both eyes is not likely to be seen, and then the
condition of the pupil is of great value in detecting it, and is one of
the best guides in connection with the ophthalmoscopic observation.
A CASE OF DOUBLE UTERUS AND VAGINA.
BY S. W. KELLEY, M. D., CLEVELAND, O.
Miss H. E., aged 20, American of Irish parentage: dark brunette, short
in stature but apparently quite handsomely formed, and ruddy with
health. She has never been sick in her life. Has menstruated normally
since her fifteenth year, though scantily during the past year. She
feared she had been injured a few days previously by the overturning of
a chair upon which she was standing, as she had since felt pain and
uneasiness in the lower pelvic and pubic region, for which she sought
advice.
Upon examination I found no injury worthy of record, but the
malformation here described. Cases of this anomaly have been recorded
from time to time, being always of interest to the teratologist,
occasionally requiring attention on account of interference with the
marital relation or parturition, and being referred to in every
discussion on superfœtation.
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