Horner’s Syndrome: A Medical Discovery from the American Civil War
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Unequally sized pupils in combination with a drooping eyelid on
the side of the smaller pupil and decreased sweating on the same
side of the face is known as Horner’s syndrome, named for Johann
Friedrich Horner, a Swiss ophthalmologist who wrote up a case in
1869. When present, Horner’s syndrome indicates interruption of
the sympathetic…
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