RT Journal
T1 EYe symptoms and cerebral localization.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1889
FD February 16
VO XII
IS 7
SP 235
OP 237
DO 10.1001/jama.1889.02400840019006
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1889.02400840019006
AB Mr. Henry R. Swanzy's Bowman Lecture on " The Value of Eye Symptoms in the Localization of Cerebral Disease," delivered on November 9, 1888, is an important contribution to cerebral surgery. The recent advances in this field have brought increased responsibilities and increased anxiety for the surgeon called upon to treat focal cerebral disease; and the responsibility and anxiety are perhaps greatest at the outset, when the regional diagnosis has to be made. It is therefore of the utmost importance that the symptoms of each case of focal cerebral disease should be carefully noted, and that each autopsy should be made with the greatest precision; furthermore, such autopsies should be conducted by skilful pathologists and microscopists.Mr. Swanzy is inclined to believe that eye-symptoms are too often not looked for at first, but are utilized rather as a dernier ressort. This is certainly a serious error; for not only are