RT Journal
A1 RISLEY SD
T1 RElations of headache to affections of the eye.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1899
FD September 23
VO XXXIII
IS 13
SP 757
OP 760
DO 10.1001/jama.1899.92450650007001b
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.92450650007001b
AB I am not unmindful of your courtesy in requesting me to speak to the Neurological Section on the ocular phases of headache. I have not accepted the honor, however, without many misgivings. The ophthalmologist, in common with a large portion of the profession, holds his breath, and treads with great circumspection when he approaches the mysterious precincts of the nervous system, that region in which his neurologic colleagues hold high carnival, and disport themselves in lighter vein. The subject chosen for your symposium, however, is one of great interest to the ophthalmologist, sincesolargea percentage of his patients suffer from headache. In the last one thousand private eye patients applying for treatment for all causes, 50 per cent. complained of this symptom, and a considerable percentage of this number came by the advice of the physician, or through the persuasion of some friend, complaining of headache alone, and were unconscious of