On squinting, paralytic affections of the eye, and certain forms of impaired vision / by Carsten Holthouse.

  • Holthouse, C. (Carsten), 1810-1901.
Date:
1897
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Credit: On squinting, paralytic affections of the eye, and certain forms of impaired vision / by Carsten Holthouse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ellglisll type, and witli some difficulty the pica. The eye was directed to be left un- covered, and the sound one to be bound up for two hours daily, with the object of improving the vision of the previously distorted eye. October 6th.—Though my directions with re- gard to binding up the sound eye have been strictly attended to, the vision of the left is not more perfect than it was immediately after the operation, so that the pica type is still distin- guished with difficulty, and to read with that eye the book is held at some distance from her, and very much to her left. December 15th.—I again saw this patient; the eye does not look so gainly now as it did a month after the operation, owing to the shrink- ing of the caruncle having given to the eye an appearance of greater fulness than the other; the sight also has undergone no improvement. The affected eye cannot be inverted as far as the other, still no double images are seen when she regards an object much to her right. In this case, as well as in the last, it will be observed that the most sensitive part of the