A practical treatise on the morbid sensibility of the eye, commonly called weakness of sight.

  • John Stevenson
Date:
1813
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Credit: A practical treatise on the morbid sensibility of the eye, commonly called weakness of sight. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    % ternal stimuli; according to the accurate observation of the late venerable Dr. Heber- den,^ “ Oculi si vel levissime sint imbecilles, quamvis nullam morbi notam pr& se ferant, aegre patiuntiu* ventum, ignem, pulverem, aut lectionem.”—A strong glare of light is always painfully distressing to the patient; and hence, in aggravated cases of this dis- ease, the effulgence of the Sun’s rays when admitted to the Eye, excites in it a very acute sensation, which is accurately referred to the bottom of the orbit; around which there is at the same time, a sense of ten- sion and oppressive uneasiness, which is con- siderably increased by external pressure. For the same reason, the patient is misera- bly uncomfortable in a brilliantly illumi- nated apartment. In order, therefore, to * Heberden Comment, de mo-rbis oculoium.
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