CASE I.—W. T., aged twenty-five. Failure of vision extending over two
years, with reduction of visual acuity to the power of counting fingers
at three feet. Double optic atrophy; pupils medium, with distinct light
response; knee-jerks distinct and no evidence of spinal disease, and no
cerebral symptoms other than one or two attacks of giddiness.
Urethritis, but no syphilis.
CASE II.—F. R., aged thirty-eight. Double optic atrophy, with almost
complete loss of vision, the defective sight having been observed for at
least eighteen months; pupils dilated and immobile; no evidence of
spinal disease, unless possibly some degree of failure of sexual power;
no cerebral incidents; no history or evidence of syphilis.
(_b_) _Optic Atrophy, with Other Ocular Evidence Suggestive of Locomotor
Ataxy._
CASE III.—(By permission of Mr. Ernest Clarke, F. R. C. S.) R. C., aged
thirty-nine. Double optic atrophy, reducing right visual acuity to the
power to count fingers at four feet, and left to mere perception of
light; right pupil dilated and three times the size of the left; neither
any light response, but free movement on convergence; entire absence of
symptoms and objective signs of spinal disease; “gleet” twenty years
before, no syphilis.
CASE IV.—A. S., aged twenty-five. Double optic atrophy, with observed
failure of vision for twelve months. V. A. right-hand movements only;
left, 6/18 part; pupils 2.5 mm., no light response, but contract on
convergence; knee-jerks difficult to obtain, but movement, though
possibly wanting in promptness, is normal in extent; no ataxia or other
evidence of spinal disease; mother of three healthy children, no
miscarriages.
(_c_) _Optic Atrophy, with Some Evidence of Spinal Disease._
CASE V.—W. A., aged thirty-seven. Double optic atrophy, with reduction
of visual acuteness to “hand movements;” pupils dilated and immobile;
knee-jerks absent, but no other evidence of spinal disease; venereal
sore when aged twenty; no recognized secondaries, and father of four
healthy children.
CASE VI.—J. G., aged thirty-five. Failure of sight (six months); optic
atrophy, gradually increasing whilst under observation of twelve months;
pupils not definitely abnormal; knee-jerks absent throughout, but no
further appearance of spinal disturbance; urethritis, but no history of
syphilis; father of two healthy children, wife no miscarriages.
CASE VII.—F. L., aged thirty-nine. Double optic atrophy, reducing visual
acuteness to 6/24, pupils very small, and with Argyll-Robertson
phenomenon; subsequent to failure of sight (twelve months) has had
shooting pains in thighs, and failure in retention power of bladder;
knee-jerks distinct; no ataxia or sensory defect in lower limbs;
venereal sore twenty years before; no recognized secondary syphilis;
wife healthy: seven pregnancies, five miscarriages.
(_d_) _Optic Atrophy, with Distinctive Evidence of Spinal Disease._
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