Hydrocephalic amaurosis / by Jabez Hogg. Amaurosis and strabismus from ascaris lumbricoides.

  • Hogg, Jabez, 1817-1899.
Date:
[1888]
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Credit: Hydrocephalic amaurosis / by Jabez Hogg. Amaurosis and strabismus from ascaris lumbricoides. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    head, the patient had gained flesh and strength, was much less fretful, the minced beef was relished, and altogether the case presented a more hopeful appearance. Teething was now proceeding at an unusually rapid pace ; eight teeth were cut before the end of the tenth month, and the whole of the milk teeth before the fifteenth. Further improvement was for a time seriously impeded by diphtheritic inflammation of the throat, which placed the child’s life in the greatest possible jeopardy. Three months passed away before convalescence was established. A change to the seaside was deemed advisable; hero he resumed his iron and cod-liver oil, and a turn for the better took place. The head had much diminished in size ; by the aid of supports and the judicious applica- tion of splints to the legs the child was able to remain for an hour or more in the upright position, and what was far more cheering, he began to take some notice of objects and of persons. There was also some attempt to imitate musical sounds, which was a source of un- mixed satisfaction to the mother, and a proof that her child’s hearing was in no way defective. During the cold weather of the following winter an attack of ringworm gave considerable trouble, and a little later on the child caught varicella (chicken-pox), which tried every one and left him very weak and debilitated. Ernest L. was now four years old. The commencement of the winter of 1883 he took cold, which was the fore- runner of a severe diffuse interstitial keratitis ; and once more he was threatened with loss of sight, which at this time was becoming useful. The acute stage of the affection, lasting upwards of two months, passed into an obstinate chronic condition, leaving behind dense corneal opacities. In the right eye at the present time a nebula much obstructs vision. During the greater part of the next year the throat again gave a good deal of anxiety and trouble. An attack of tonsillitis proved for a time intractable, and ultimately abscission of the tonsils was obliged to be resorted to before permanent relief was obtained. For the greater part of the time over which this part of my report extends, that is up to the eighth year, iron in various forms and combinations, with, or without cod-liver oil, were constantly given. But what in my opinion was of more value than remedies was the