The fabrick of the eye, and the several disorders which injure or destroy the sight. Explained in a clear and useful manner, for the service of those whose eyes are weak or impaired ... : with a plain account of all the disorders of the eyes, and safe and effectual remedies for them ... / [Anon].

  • John Hill
Date:
1758
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Credit: The fabrick of the eye, and the several disorders which injure or destroy the sight. Explained in a clear and useful manner, for the service of those whose eyes are weak or impaired ... : with a plain account of all the disorders of the eyes, and safe and effectual remedies for them ... / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAP. XVII. Of artificial Eyes. ' O the entire lofs of fight, from the A diforders of which we have treated, there is often added a deformity of the Eye itfelf. Other caufes befides thefe will alfo totally and irrecoverably deftroy the Eyes; and often render them at the fame time pro¬ tuberant, and otherwife unfightly. In this cafe when the power of fight is utterly ex- tinguifhed, and the Eye is a difguftful objedl, there is fome advantage in removing the de¬ formity, The globe of the Eye, with its pupil, and the circle, or iris, is a body eafily imitated by art. Glafs may be made to refemble it in fhape and lineaments: and when one Eye remains good, fuch an artificial one may be let into the place of the other; and being made after the pattern of the entire Eye, no one can fee the difference. It may alfo, by a careful operation, in cafes where the body of the Eye is not too much impair’d, be fo let in as to be capable of motion. This is in the power of art, and it may be done,andisdone fo perfectly,that many perfons have one of their Eyes glafs, though their mod intimate acquaintance have never perceived it: and I could infiance, at this time, an officer in