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at this point and effect the crossed fibres only, producing a unilateral temporal hemianopic or quadrantic central scotoma called ‘‘junction’’ scotoma, since it indicates the site of the lesion at the junction of the optic nerve and chiasma’. The 'Traquair scotoma' or 'Traquair junctional scotoma' is found in 1 – 10% of patients with
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is an area of lost or depressed vision within the visual field, surrounded by an area of less depressed or of normal vision. Traquair described the scotoma which bears his name as follows:‘At the chiasmal termination of the nerve the crossed and uncrossed fibres separate, and a small lesion may occur
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in 1920. He also received the Doyne
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caused by tobacco or alcohol had been recognised for many years but it was
Traquair who gave the most accurate and detailed account of amblyopia caused by tobacco. He described it as follows: 'The scotoma is typically centrocecal in position, and is never central in true sense, that is to say,
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which troubled him throughout his later life. He graduated MB ChM with first class honours in 1901. One year later he took the
Diploma in Public Health (DPH) and this was followed by a period of postgraduate study at the
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He was due to retire from the staff of the Royal
Infirmary in 1940 but because of the absence on military service of younger colleagues, he was asked to continue as surgeon in charge of wards and did so until 1943.
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Traquair went to Copenhagen to learn from him. He went on to develop standards for clinical perimetry which became widely accepted. He used these techniques to show that the visual field defects caused by
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In 1927 Traquair was appointed ophthalmic surgeon in charge of wards in the Royal
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Moss), was a talented artist and craftswoman, celebrated in her own lifetime as a book illustrator, bookbinder, embroiderer, enamellist and particularly as a mural painter.
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Harry Moss Traquair died in Edinburgh on 15 November 1954 after a long illness. His ashes were interred in his parents' grave in
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