On the nature, symptoms, and treatment of the different species of amaurosis, or gutta serena.

  • Stevenson, John, 1778-1846?
Date:
1821
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Credit: On the nature, symptoms, and treatment of the different species of amaurosis, or gutta serena. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    relating to diseases of the eye. In fact, the complaint under consideration is, at this day, generally regarded as nearly syno- nymous with an incurable state of blind- ness. My aim in the following work has been to investigate the nature of Amaurosis, and to prove by an appeal to reason, analogy, and facts, that in various instances, when unaccompanied with morbid changes of structure in any part of the eye-ball, this disease admits not only of satisfactory elu- cidation, but also of successful modes of treatment. ■— Si quid novisti rectius istis, Candidus imperii; si non, his utere mecum.—-Horace. 305, Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, Sept. 1st, 1821.