On paralytic, neuralgic, and other nervous diseases of the eye / [Arthur Jacob].

  • Arthur Jacob
Date:
[1841]
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    ON PARALYTIC AND OTHER NERVOUS DISEASES OF THE EYE. PROVISIONS FOR ADJUSTING THE EYE. The division of tho muscles of the eye, for theremoval of squint, has excited so much attention, and led to so much interesting and useful discussion, relative to the motions of that organ, that I think any information calculated to throw light oh the subject must be ac¬ ceptable. I have, therefore, put together the follow¬ ing observations, and offer them as a contribution to a stock of materials, to be used hereafter for the re¬ solution of difficulties which have hitherto baffled our researches. The subject, it must be admitted, is one of the highest interest, not merely in connexion with ophthalmic medicine, but as affording physiological and pathological illustrations of the utmost value, and of the most instructive nature. I do this, also, be¬ cause I am most anxious to convince the members of our profession that the study of diseases of the eye is worthy of the attention of the most enlightened ; and that from it information is to be derived which the contemplation of the diseases of no other organ affords. It is most distressing and humiliating to find even well-informed persons impressed with the idea that nothing more is required for the successful practice of ophthalmic medicine than ihe skill to perform a surgical operation on the organ : that it is, in fact, a kind of handicraft. The following inquiries, amongst others, will, I hope, assist in dispelling an error so injurious to the study of the subject. Before, however, attempting to investigate the causes, symptoms, and consequences of paralysis affecting the muscles of the eye, it is expedient to remind the reader of their ar¬ rangement and uses; and with this view, it will bo necessary to enter into details, which practical men may not relish. I cannot, however, otherwise hope to make the information I have to communicate in¬ telligible. Of the mechanical contrivances of the animal
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