Obstruction of the Central Retinal Artery

In a woman of sixty-seven years, who had general arteriosclerosis, had had several paralytic strokes, and died a little later from coronary thrombosis, sudden blindness occurred in association with the ophthalmoscopic picture of obstruction of the central artery of the retina, together with the striking appearance of fragmentation of the retinal blood stream, as illustrated in the color drawings by the author which form the frontispiece to this issue.