STUDIES ON THE VISCERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
- 1 September 1927
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physiological Society in American Journal of Physiology-Legacy Content
- Vol. 82 (1) , 56-58
- https://doi.org/10.1152/ajplegacy.1927.82.1.56
Abstract
The authors studied visual effects of distention of the stomach or colon by balloons, with themselves as subjects. They found a reflex disturbance of vision with blurring of near objects. This was not caused by ametropia, heterophoria, or change in intra-ocular tension, but by ciliary muscle hypotonia and reflex retinal congestion and edema. After a 15[long dash]20 min. period of distention the ophthalmoscopic picture resembled a mild case of clinical retinal edema.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: