Report on ophthalmology and otology delivered before the Illinois State Medical Society at its thirty-second anniversary meeting, held at Quincy, May 1882 / by A. E. Prince.

  • Prince, A. E. (Arthur E.)
Date:
1889
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Credit: Report on ophthalmology and otology delivered before the Illinois State Medical Society at its thirty-second anniversary meeting, held at Quincy, May 1882 / by A. E. Prince. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DTOPTRTOS. DEGREES. Plus 0.5 I). 1°.30' Pins 1. 3° • Plus 1.25 D. 4°.30' Plus 1.75 D. .6° Plus 2. D. 7.30 Plus 2.5 D. 9° In many cases of asthenopia not relieved by correcting liy- ])ei-raetropia and astigmatism, I liave a reading glass made with such a combination added to the glasses, which correct the error of the individual case, and such glasses have done well in every case. The following will serve to illustrate the application of the above: To the general practitioner for whom the first section ot this report was arranged, a little piece of personal history will be ot more value than a report of any cases of paracentesis which,! have myself performed. About three months before the meet- ing of this society I had the pleasure of a visit from Dr. Ledlie, of Pittsfield. to whom I took the opportunity of explaining the relations of the parts concerned in. this operation, as above described, and the opportunity was afforded him of studying these relations on a large papier-mache model and also on a prep- aration of the temporal bone. The doctor had never realized that it was so simple a proceedure and resolved on his return home, when opportunity should offer, to put it in parctice. Yesterday I met him here at the society and he expressed his gratitude for the advantage his visit had been to him, for in as many weeks he had had three cases of acute otitis media attended