Volume 1

Collections from the unpublished medical writings of the late Caleb Hillier Parry.

  • Caleb Hillier Parry
Date:
1825
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Collections from the unpublished medical writings of the late Caleb Hillier Parry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    fever, or marks of affection of the frontal sinus, but affecting the eye with deep pain, and watering, during the fit.—She was cured shortly by Arsenic. Affection of one Eye.—Mr. G. V., a midshipman, was for four years employed in the signals, in which his constant duty was with a telescope to look out for distant objects. This he always did with his right eye, shutting the left. The consequence is, that the right eye is become so near-sighted that he cannot read without a concave glass farther than about a foot from that eye, while with the other he can see at the distance which is common to other persons of the same age. [1815.] Effect of Iieat or Light on the Retina.—Oct. 23, 1812. Mr. Le G., a West-lndian, of middle age, a free liver, and accustomed to an indolent life, after having been for four hours on horseback, exposed to a burning sun, began almost immediately to perceive a dimness of sight in his right eye, which rapidly increased, so that at the end of a fortnight his sight was entirely lost. There was never any pain or in- flammation in the part; and now, eighteen months after the commencement of the malady, thoagh he is perfectly blind in that eye, there is no appearance of disease in it, except that the Iris does not sufficiently, or equally with that of the other eye, elongate itself on exposure to light. It still, however, continues in some degree to obey the influence of that stimulus. Amaurosis cured. — Mrs. P. ,aged twenty-eight, a married woman, who had been once before pregnant, had been subject to pains in her head, and about a o o