Practical observations on the principal diseases of the eyes: illustrated with cases / Translated from the Italian ... with notes, by James Briggs.

  • Antonio Scarpa
Date:
1806
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    or ina carriage, in a pure and dry air, andl ino warm weather he fhould ufe fea-bathing. He fhould avoid as much as poffible mental anxiety, and fhould not fix his eyes on very minute or Jucid obje&s.* In proportion as he takes nou- rifhment and regains ftrength, and the action of the nervous fyftem in general is invigorated, his fight will gradually amend; to preferve and im- prove which, he fhould keep in mind, above all,. to maintain the tone and vigour of the ftomach, and to moderate the impreffion of light upon the eyes, which he may eafily do by never ex- pofing himfelf to a vivid light, unlefs when they are defended by plain green glaffes. * Tt oceafionally happens that patients, in thefe cafes, can- not look at a very near object, with one or both «the eyes, without experiencing fatigue and pain in one or both of them, ‘while they feel no inconvenience from looking at an object at a certain diftance. And when the dificulty which they findin looking at a near object is confined to one eye, -it is accompanied with ftrabifmus and double fight. This depends upon a debilitated ftate of the mufcles of the eyes, in confequence of which the patient cannot conveniently accom- modate the eye- -bal] to very near objects, or maintain it fot a length of time in this pofition ; ; and -when the debility is confined to the mufcles of one eye, this being unable to con- cur in the actions of the other, {trabifmus and double vifion are the neceflary confequences. This inconvenience is alfo remedied by. the general and local corroborants before men- tiotied, and by avoiding to ftrain the mufcles of the eyes. And if the debility be confined to one eye only, and.occafion the ftrabifinus, it will be advantageous. to keep the affeéted eye covered for fome time. «The