An eye case in the courts / by C.A. Robertson.

  • Robertson, Charles A. (Charles Archibald), 1829-1880
Date:
1873
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Credit: An eye case in the courts / by C.A. Robertson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    and that he had to take his statement, of course. He did not use the stereoscope, he said. The substance of the further testimony of the witness was as follows: The chief opacity was a little to t?ie nasal side of the centre / it was not easily seen by unaided vision/ could not say whether this opacity was recent or not / it might or might not account for any defect; [that is of sight ?] found slight changes [nature not stated] in the choroid coat f also around the edge of the nerve some slight changes y the refrac- tion of the eye was not perfectly normal; that condition I supposed to be congenital; I call that hypermetropia / there was slight astigmatism^ corrected partially by a particular glass; I found it (the astigmatism) regular ; '' cannot say how much of his defect of vision is due to some congenital cause, and how much acquired / an external injury or blow is not a necessary cause to such opacity and such choroidal changes/ might exist simply in the natural course of disease of the eye/ may have no relation to any injury or accident that occurred four or five years ago.'''' The testimony of Dr. Agnew was given frankly and distinctly, and with the manifest intent of communicating what really lay in his own mind. It in no way, however, established the least connection between the accident alleged to have happened in April, 1867, and the condi- tion of things observed by him early in 1873, almost six years afterwards, in a patient, once, if not still subject to ophthalmia, and possessing a congenital defect of sight, which he had only to exaggerate in his representations,