Essays on the Morbid Anatomy of the Human Eye, Deel 12,Volume 1

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George Ramsay & Company, 1808 - 159 pagina's

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Pagina xii - The labyrinth may be too intricate, and the thread too fine, to be traced through all its windings; but if we stop where we can trace it no farther, and secure the ground we have gained, there is no harm done; a quicker eye may in time trace it farther.
Pagina 96 - ... transparency, and appeared as if no such experiment had been made.) From this curious phenomenon in the dead eye, it was probable that, in the living one, the transparency of the cornea might vary according to the degree of its distension; and that, in some varieties of opacities of the cornea, the obscurity might arise from an increase in the quantity of the contents of the eyeball.
Pagina vii - A Series of Engravings, Accompanied with Explanations, Which Are Intended To Illustrate the Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body.
Pagina 75 - ... use of the knife to separate its adhesions. From the unsteadiness of the patient, she would not permit me to examine from what part the ossification originated. I am consequently at a loss, whether to suppose it took its growth from any of the coats of the eye, or if any osseous matter might, in consequence of the accident, collect within the said coats, and, in the course of fifteen years, form a complete bone.
Pagina 119 - When you first mentioned to me the case of Miss , I was much surprised at the number of images which she observed round luminous objects. As this multiplication of images could arise only from some irregularity in the cornea, or crystalline lens, which gave their surface the form of a polyhedron, it was completely inexplicable from the shape of the cornea itself, which your drawing represented (see Plate VIL fig.
Pagina 69 - ... had remained for ten years prior to the person's death, without his experiencing the least uneasiness, or even suspecting its presence.
Pagina 121 - The reflected image regularly decreased in size when it passed over the most convex parts of the cornea; but when it came to the part nearest the nose, it alternately expanded and contracted, and suffered such derangements as to indicate the presence of a number of spherical eminences and depressions, which sufficiently accounted for the broken and multiplied images of luminous...
Pagina 73 - I observed a substance of a whitish appearance, in the under part of the globe of the eye, arising from the inside of the sclerotic coat, and extending upwards, below the cornea, over a great part of the iris, to very near the pupil.
Pagina 91 - ... had long been subject, suddenly assumed the appearance of pulmonary consumption, which proceeded rapidly towards its last stage. Five days before his death, he was seized with a violent aggravation of the hectic fever and other symptoms, so that his death was hourly expected. At this time, to the surprise of his attendants, the opacities, by which the vision of both eyes had long been obstructed, disappeared with amazing rapidity, so that a short time before his death, his sight became nearly...
Pagina 120 - VIL fig. 1.) as a regular surface, resembling very much that of a hyperboloid ; for the only indistinctness occasioned by a cornea of this form, would arise from the concentration of the rays before they fell upon the retina. When I had the pleasure of examining the eye itself, the difficulty of explanation was in no respect diminished. In every aspect in which the cornea could be viewed, its section appeared to be a regular curve, increasing in curvature towards the vertex ; a form which could produce...

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