The scintillating scotoma or transient functional hemiopia : read before the Newark Medical and Surgical Society, Jan. 19, 1905 / by Charles J. Kipp.

  • Kipp, Charles John.
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1905
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    SIENT FUNCTIONAL HEMIOPIA.* CHARLES J. KIPP, M.D. NEWARK, N. J. The phenomenon of scintillating s.cotoma is well known, though it is not always described in the text- books on diseases of the eye. My interest in this affec- tion dates back many years, when I became more inti- mately acquainted with it through personal experience. Since then I have talked with many physicians, and especially ophthalmologists, who also had knowledge of it from personal experience, and what I have thus gathered is recorded here. It should be of particular interest to the general practitioner because patients suf- fering from this disturbance for the first time are greatly alarmed and apply to their family physician for relief. This condition was first described, so far as I know, in a dissertation by Yater and Heinecke,^ in 1723. Since then many men eminent in medicine and in the natural sciences have described this condition as they have observed it. Various names have been ap- plied to this phenomenon: Scintillating scotoma,^ tei- chopsie,^ amaurosis partialis fugax,^ ophthalmic mi- graine,® and transient functional hemianopia.® The * Read before the Newark Medical and Surgical Society. 1. Vater u. Heinecke: Dissertatio, qua visus duo vitia varls- Sima, alterum diplocati alterum dimidiati physiologice et patho- logice considerati exponuntur; Wittenberg, 1723, quoted from Schmidt-Rimpler, Die Erkrankungen des Auges im Zusammenhang mit anderen Krankheiten. Wien. 1898, p. 104. 2. Listing: Nervoeses Scotom, Monatsbl. f. Augenheilkunde, v, 1867, p. 335. 3. Airy, Sir George: On a Distinct Form of Transient Hemi- opia. Phil. Trans., London, v, 140, 1870. 4. Foerster; Ueber Amaurosis partiales fugax, Kllnische Monatsbl. f. Augenheilkunde, 1869, p. 422. 5. Galezowskie: Recueil d’Ophthalmologie, 1883, p. 536. 6. Gowers, Sir W. R.: A Manual of Diseases of the Nervous