Diabetic Affections of the Eye (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Diabetic Affections of the EyeCase IX. - Male, aged forty-six, laborer, came to the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, March 18, 1881, complaining of failure of vision in each eye, more marked in the left Dzfifi, ophthalmoscope showed a cataract in each, of a soft variety and progressive in character, fundus normal, so far as could be seen. This failure of vision came on three months before coming under observation, and has rapidly increased. Examination of the urine by Fehling's test gave evidences of sugar. Patient voiding eight pints of urine daily. The patient was put on antidiabetic diet, and the amount of the sugar dimin ished. The vision, however, gradually decreased, and percep tion of light only remained. After three months' careful treat ment for the constitutional disease, the lens of the L. E. Was extracted, and, save a mild form of iritis, no serious difficulty was experienced in the healing process. The patient was oper ated on at his home, and lived two years after the operation, dying of pneumonia on December 28, 1883.Case X. - Female, aged forty-eight, widow, sewing-woman. First noticed failure of vision in January, 1883, and three months previously had noticed an increase in the quantity of urine voided. The increase in urine came on shortly after a severe sorrow, since which time She has lost weight and become very melancholy Examination revealed double soft cataract, R. V.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.