The eye, a treatise on the art of preserving this organ and of improving the sight; to which is prefixed, a view of the anatomy and physiology of the eye |
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Seite 65 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Seite 39 - I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
Seite 293 - Comprising Observations on the Arrangement, Police, and Practice of Hospitals: and on the History, Treatment, and Anomalies of Variola and Syphilis. Illustrated with Cases and Dissections.
Seite 62 - Oh ! o'er the eye Death most exerts his might, And hurls the spirit from her throne of light ! Sinks those blue orbs in that long last eclipse, But spares, as yet, the charm around her...
Seite 291 - Hooper's Physician's Vade Mecum; A Manual of the Principles and Practice of Physic, with an Outline of General Pathology, Therapeutics, and Hygiene.
Seite 275 - I have related in my treatise, loss of vision took place in nine from sloughing, suppuration, or opacity of the cornea. In two of these one eye was lost, and the other recovered. Sight was restored in the other five, with partial opacity of the cornea, and anterior adhesion of the iris in three of the number.
Seite 35 - ... could recognise or distinguish nothing singly. He says farther, that he did not convince himself till after some time during his walks out of doors, that what had at first appeared to him as a shutter of various colours, as well as many other objects, were in reality very different things; and that at length the shutter disappeared, and he saw and recognised all things in their just proportions.
Seite 276 - An Account of the Ophthalmia which has appeared in England since the Return of the British Army from Egypt.
Seite 279 - Soldier* on guard there, or at bivouac, should, during the night, cover their heads well ; and, if in moist and cold situations, avoid currents of air as much as possible. Dr. Vetch mentions that of four officers who slept in the same tent, in Egypt, two took the precaution to bind their eyes up every night when going to rest, and the two others did not ; the latter were in a very short time attacked by the disease, while the other two escaped. 2. Heavy caps and tight stiff collars ought to be laid...
Seite 174 - ... as I could see ; or if I had occasionally intermitted study, and taken to field sports, or any employment which would have obliged me to look much at distant objects, it is very probable that I might not have been Near-sighted at all.