A practical treatise on the morbid sensibility of the eye, commonly called weakness of sight / [John Stevenson].

  • Stevenson, John, 1778-1846?
Date:
1819
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Credit: A practical treatise on the morbid sensibility of the eye, commonly called weakness of sight / [John Stevenson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    source, should be studiously guarded against, as a cause equally capable of producing, and exasperating the malady ; but in very violent cases, an almost total seclusion from strong hght, becomes indis- pensibly necessary ; otherwise our . best directed efforts may prove abortive. When the complaint, however, is 7Te- cent, the result only of a sudden change from a moderate to a strong light, and the predisposition to it is neither hereditary, nor acquired by previous disease of the organ; its perfect resolution may often be accomplished by the simple removal. of the eaciting cause. On this occasion I[ cannot help offering the Reader two cases Ihave met with in a little tract entitled, “On the Fabric of the Eye,’ published in 1758. ‘“ A lady from the country, coming