A critical inquiry respecting a new membrane in the eye : discovered by Mr. George Hunsley Fielding, and described by him in a lecture delivered at Oxford, before the late meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science / by William Gordon.

  • Gordon, William, 1800-1849.
Date:
1832
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Credit: A critical inquiry respecting a new membrane in the eye : discovered by Mr. George Hunsley Fielding, and described by him in a lecture delivered at Oxford, before the late meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science / by William Gordon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    it to exist) take away from it its power of reflec- tion, but we must assent to many hypotheses which cannot be proved ; and before the theory of reflection can be established as true, it will be necessary that all animals endowed with sight, should become nearly, if not entirely, deprived of that faculty. I must now conclude, and, in doing so, 1 cannot avoid observing, that Mr. Fielding's Lecture has done any thing rather than tended to elucidate the intricate subject of Vision. J. PURDON, PRINTER, MARKET-PLACE, HULL.
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