SUBJECTIVE "LIGHTNING STREAKS"

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THE following is a short note of a sharp-cut symptom complex which must be familiar to everyone, for it is of fairly common occurrence, and to the patient is a striking phenomnenon.The symptoms are the 'occurrence of flashes. of light, almost always compared to lightning, seen periodically for a few weeks or a month or two, almost invariably referred to the temporal side of the field of vision; they are most 'conspicuous, as would be expected, in the dark, and are either accompanied or followed by the appearance of spots before the eyes.The symptoms are so striking and the patient is.often so insistent upon them that I used systematically to dilate the pupils and to take the visual fields in fear.lest they might indicate some early organic retinal lesion, such as a commencing detachment, vascular disease, or perhaps an early neoplasm.For some reason or another they are commoner in females than

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