Miners' nystagmus : and its relation to position at work and the manner of illumination / by Simeon Snell.

  • Simeon Snell
Date:
1892
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    to find such opinions not based on or supported by ascertained facts. This question has indeed been fruit- ful in producing statements which have been merely opinions. The result of all my investigations has been to corroborate in the fullest manner, the broad and essen- tial conclusions which I have previously published; and has been such as to give me the conviction, that the cause of Miners' Nystagmus is as clearly set forth as almost any problem in the etiology of disease in medicine or surgery. It is interesting to note that those who have most fully studied this malady in different countries, have arrived at almost similar conclusions. Dr. Dransart remarks on this feature in his recent letter to the British Medical Journal.* He says Thus Nieden in Germany, Snell in England, and I in France, who are known to be much acquainted with Miners' Nystagmus—we have all three the same statements on this interesting disease. Dr. Dransart and myself appear to have become in- terested in this disease, and to have begun our investigations about the same time. Independently of each other our conclusions have been the same; and it is only recently that any communications have passed between us on a subject in which we have both such a keen interest. My thanks are due to him for kindly supplying me with many facts as to the work of the miner in France; for forward- ing me a naked lamp such as is used in that country, and moreover, for permitting me to use his photographs. * Appendix, page 132.
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