The earliest account of intraocular hemorrhage associated with intracranial hemorrhage which had extended into the intervaginal spaces of the optic nerve was the observation of Hale-White1in 1895. He stated the belief that "the hemorrhage had passed forward in the sheath of the optic nerves which were much distended with blood clot and ultimately tore its way forward under the retina." Uhthoff2was one of the first to question the validity of this belief. Other investigators (Dupuy-Dutemps,3Riddoch and Goulden4and Macdonald5) have shown by histopathologic examination that there was no evidence of blood having traveled from either the subdural or the subarachnoid space around the nerve forward into the eye. Since the publication of their reports, there has been considerable controversy over the relationship between intraocular hemorrhage and intracranial hemorrhage. According to Fearnsides,6the first definite account of an intracranial aneurysm was published