Case of Exophthalmos
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was said to have commenced after an attack of fever, eighteen months previous to his admision into hospital. He was at first under Dr. Fayrer's care, but, on his leaving India, in February, became a patient of mine. He has been a very temperate and hard-working man. During the first four months of his illness he could see to such an extent as to be able to find his way about, and to distinguish light from darkness. From the commencement of the ocular protrusion he never complained of pain in his head, nor of any prominent symptom of disease within the orbit. For the last eight months he has not been able to see at all, excepting on some occasion, when he says the eyeballs go back into their proper positions, and he can then see. Such a
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دوره 7 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016