Is the human eye changing its form under the influence of modern education? / Edward G. Loring.

  • Loring, Edward G. (Edward Greeley), 1837-1888
Date:
1878
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Credit: Is the human eye changing its form under the influence of modern education? / Edward G. Loring. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ledge of this analogy of structure and of disease funiislies the basis of that systematic mode of treating of the diseases of the eye which is now adopted, in contrast to that imrae- thodical and incomplete mode of discussing the same sub- ject employed in former times. Now, in consequence of the number of parts entering into the composition of the eye — their varied nature and charac- ters— the small space they occupy—their proximity to, and vascular communications with, each other,—and also the delicacy and, so to speak, minuteness of many of the visible symptoms of their respective diseases,— it requires, in order to arrive at an exact discrimination of the precise situation, the form, and the degree, of existing inflammation or other morbid affection, that these circumstances (that is, the visible symptoms of disease) be noted, in detail, by your lecturer, and described with the utmost minuteness and precision, with all the helps and appliances which other than verbal description can give. This is a part of my sub- ject to which I have paid great attention,— deriving such knowledge as I possess, not from books, but obtaining my information from the opportunity and habit of closely observ- ing disease ; and I will explain to you the method 1 have adopted, with a view of enabling me to ascertain and deli- neate the visible external symptoms of those diseases with which it is ray duty to endeavour to make you acquainted. It has been my custom, at every convenient opportunity, to ivatch cases from their commencement to their conclusion; — I mean, to observe them at regular intervals two or three times a day, or more or less frequently, according to circum- stances ;— to see them in all their stages,—not only when disease has been limited to the part in which it began, but when it has extended to other textures; not merely when treatment has succeeded in accomplishing a cure, but also when, from a variety of circumstances, disorganization of
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