A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye

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Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1830 - 861 pages
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Page 759 - saw only SON ; the commencement of the name being wholly obliterated to my view. In this instance the loss of sight was toward my left, and was the same whether I looked with the right eye or the left. This blindness was not so complete as to amount to absolute blackness, but was a shaded darkness without definite
Page 735 - is insensible to the colours at one end of the spectrum, just as the ear of certain persons has been proved, by Dr. Wollaston, to be insensible to sounds at one extremity of the scale of musical notes, while it is perfectly sensible to all other sounds.
Page 760 - It is now about fifteen months since a similar affection occurred again to myself, without my being able to assign any cause whatever, or to connect it with any previous or subsequent indisposition. The blindness was first observed, as before, in looking at the face of a person I met, whose
Page 732 - full reds and full greens appeared alike, while yellows and dark blues were very easily distinguished. Mr. Scott's father, his maternal uncle, one of his sisters, and her two sons, had all the same
Page 299 - The hissing noise in the head could be distinctly heard, and was attributed to aneurism. On the death of the patient, an aneurism of the ophthalmic artery was discovered on each side, of about the size of a large nut. The ophthalmic vein was greatly enlarged, and obstructed near where it passes through the
Page 732 - had two brothers almost equally defective, one of whom always mistook orange for green. Harris observed this defect when he was four years old. Having by accident found in the street a child's stocking, he
Page 254 - were become stronger, and more ready for motion than their antagonists. Darwin recommended a paper gnomon to be made, and fixed to a cap. When this artificial nose was placed over his real nose, so as to project an inch between his eyes, the child, rather than turn his head so far to look at oblique objects,
Page 837 - were injected; the right pupil was exceedingly contracted; the left was much larger than usual, and had lost its circular form; both were unaffected on the approach of light. The hands were joined, and in a state of rigid contraction; the arms bound over the chest; and the whole body
Page 732 - it to a neighbouring house to inquire for the owner : he observed the people called it a red stocking, though he did not understand why they gave it that denomination, as he himself thought it completely described by being called a stocking. The circumstance, however, remained in his memory, and together with subsequent observations, led him to the knowledge of his defect. He observed,
Page 752 - of life, who in my opinion is not exceeded by any one, in acquired knowledge, and originality of deep research; and who, for nine months in succession, was always visited by a figure of the same man, threatening to destroy him, at the time of going to rest. It appeared upon his lying down, and instantly disappeared when he resumed the erect

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