ALTHOUGH disturbances of vision resulting from, digitalis intoxication have been described in many forms and by many investigators, no definite instance of retrobulbar neuritis caused by digitalis poisoning appears to have been reported in the literature. Recently, Carroll1 reported 6 cases of colored vision caused by digitalis intoxication. No defects in the visual fields were present in these cases. In a discussion of his own paper,2 he mentioned that Dr. D. F. Gillette, of Syracuse, N. Y., had observed 2 cases of retrobulbar neuritis resulting from digitalis poisoning. These cases, as yet, have not been reported in the literature.
Colored vision is a rather common visual manifestation of digitalis poisoning. The chromatopsia is most common for yellow or green, but red, brown, blue or white vision has been described.3 Langdon and Mulberger3d stated that a relative central scotoma was present in case 4 of their series,