ART. XI.—A Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye

Lawrence, William M.

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“…Like other contemporary authors, the suggested treatment options included cataract extraction as proposed by Sir William Adams. At the end of the report, he perceptively confirmed ‘ that we do not understand the pathology of conical cornea, that its causes are totally obscure, and that we know no treatment capable of remedying it ’ …”

Section: Keratoconus In the First Half Of The 19th Centurymentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Three years later, Lawrence devoted three pages to the description of the disease under the name of ‘conical cornea’ noting that the cornea ‘ lost its regular convexity, and it is elevated into a conical protuberance without opacity, pain, or any preceding suffering, and without any visible change in its own texture, or in any other parts of the eye ’. The patient has ‘ a peculiar brilliance or dazzling look of the eye, the light being reflected in an unusual manner from the altered portion of the cornea ’ and ‘ when we survey the eye laterally, we see that the cornea does not present its natural convexity, that is elevated into an obtuse cone …’ .…”

Section: Keratoconus In the First Half Of The 19th Centurymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The patient has ‘ a peculiar brilliance or dazzling look of the eye, the light being reflected in an unusual manner from the altered portion of the cornea ’ and ‘ when we survey the eye laterally, we see that the cornea does not present its natural convexity, that is elevated into an obtuse cone …’ . Lawrence noted that ‘ the change in the shape of the cornea interrupts the transmission of light; the focus is altered and the patient is rendered myopic ’. He also covered previous reports of keratoconus dating from Scarpa (1801) but appeared to be unaware of the earlier 18 th century descriptions.…”

Section: Keratoconus In the First Half Of The 19th Centurymentioning

confidence: 99%

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The early history of keratoconus prior to Nottingham's landmark 1854 treatise on conical cornea: a review

Grzybowski

McGhee

2013

Clinical and Experimental Optometry

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In an era of scientific method, precision of nomenclature and an electronically accessible publication record, the early history of keratoconus still remains, in parts, as complex and perplexing as the disease itself. Historically, the disease has been somewhat confusingly referred to by several different terms, including hyperkeratosis, ochlodes, conical formed cornea, cornea conica, cornée conique, sugar loaf cornea, prolapses corneae, procidentia corneae, staphyloma transparent de la cornée, staphyloma pellucidum, staphyloma corneae totale conicum pellucidum, staphyloma diaphanum, keratconus and keratoconus. In his major 1854 treatise on conical cornea, John Nottingham is widely cited as the first author to succinctly define keratoconus and its associations; however, for 150 years prior to this landmark publication, others had been slowly deciphering elements of keratoconus and distilling their knowledge in a series of publications obscured by the passage of years. Uncritical re‐writing of core information and references without their full verification has also led to confusion in the published literature in the 150 years since Nottingham's comprehensive description of keratoconus. In the light of the preceding limitations in the established literature, the authors conducted an historical survey, based on the analysis of original sources, to more fully establish the chronology of early descriptions of keratoconus prior to 1854, with particular focus on the works of Duddell, Taylor, Mauchart, Scarpa, Wardrop, Lyall, MacKenzie, Lawrence, Schmidt, von Ammon and Pickford. This review attempts to place the observations of these practitioners and others both in the context of contemporary ophthalmic practice and historical precedent.

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Section: Keratoconus In the First Half Of The 19th Centurymentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Keratoconus In the First Half Of The 19th Centurymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Keratoconus In the First Half Of The 19th Centurymentioning

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The early history of keratoconus prior to Nottingham's landmark 1854 treatise on conical cornea: a review

Grzybowski

McGhee

2013

Clinical and Experimental Optometry

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“…The French translation of the lectures was published in 1830. Lawrence finished his book on ocular syphilis in 1830 10 and then undertook the big job of expanding his Lancet-published lectures into a major text. This textbook of 800 pages called A Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye did not appear until 1833.…”

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“…9 In Billard's book there is a translation of Lawrence's 1827 letter that gave his express permission to Billard to publish this French version of his lectures. Lawrence finished his other project, on syphilis and the eye, 10 and then went back to work on his big textbook on eye diseases. He reorganized some of the lecture material and added approximately 300 pages of text, and his book was published in London in 1833.…”

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William Lawrence and the English Ophthalmology Textbooks of the 1830s and 1840s

Thompson

Duffel²

2012

Arch Ophthalmol

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Muscae volitantes: A 19th-century precursor of visual snow syndrome?

Weatherall

2024

Cephalalgia

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Purpose Visual snow syndrome comprises a whole-field static-like visual disturbance, with increased awareness of entopic phenomena, an inability to suppress the ‘just seen’ and photophobia. Visual snow syndrome is often associated with other problems such as headache, tinnitus, and anxiety. The earliest reported case of a patient experiencing symptoms consistent with visual snow syndrome dates only to 1995. This paper seeks to find patterns of experience in the medical literature of the past that are reminiscent of visual snow syndrome, to challenge the view that it is in any sense a novel disorder. Descriptions of subjective visual sensations such as experienced by patients suffering from visual snow syndrome were sought in treatises, textbooks and other literature generated by leading figures in 19th-century ophthalmology, physiology and physics. Conclusion While retrospective diagnosis of modern illness categories in historical medical literature is an enterprise fraught with pitfalls, it is nonetheless possible to see patterns of experience in the 19th-century medical literature that are strongly reminiscent of visual snow syndrome.

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ART. XI.—A Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye

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The early history of keratoconus prior to Nottingham's landmark 1854 treatise on conical cornea: a review

The early history of keratoconus prior to Nottingham's landmark 1854 treatise on conical cornea: a review

William Lawrence and the English Ophthalmology Textbooks of the 1830s and 1840s

Muscae volitantes: A 19th-century precursor of visual snow syndrome?

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