Injuries of the eye : and their medico-legal aspect / by Ferdinand von Arlt ; tr. by Chas. S. Turnbull.

  • Arlt, Carl Ferdinand von, 1812-1887.
Date:
1878
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    subject to military duty, caused suspicion; they were received in the hospital and all their effects taken from them; notwithstanding this, the trouble continued until, all of a sudden, warm baths suddenly did away with it. The deceivers confessed having employed, on the advice of a veterinary surgeon, an extract of belladonna, con- cealing it beneath the nail of the great toe. According to Zander and Geissler (loc. tit., p. 531), it has happened that young men, in order to shirk military duty, have had a cataract produced by means of a fine needle, or a corneal opacity, through repeated touching of the cornea with lunar caustic. The latter might perhaps be differ- entiated from opacities due to other causes by a peculiar grayish black tinge of the conjunctiva. (Argyrosis.) § 39. When it is stated by any one that he is short- or weak-sighted in one or both eyes, he should be examined concerning the distance at which he can see objects of a definite size; and whether a recognition at a greater distance is possible when concave glasses of differing foci are employed. Should the latter turn out to be the case, short- sightedness is certainly present, and the focal dis- tance of that concave lens, with which the vision wTas relatively the best, may be used to designate the degree of short-sightedness (myopia). For in- stance, should the eye in question distinctly per-