Fifty brief biographic clinics upon living patients / by George M. Gould.

  • Gould, George Milbrey, 1848-1922.
Date:
[between 1900 and 1909]
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Credit: Fifty brief biographic clinics upon living patients / by George M. Gould. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    work; I thank you most sincerely. I can read three hours continuously with little sign of wear- iness.” The tilted head was in this case one of the chief causes of failure. Case 50. A man, 30 years old, had long been sutSering from headache, ‘‘practically all the time,” some- times with nausea, with “nervous indigestion,” and other “migrainous” symptoms. In the last eight years he has worn spectacles from several IDi’ominent oculists in Chicago and New Yoi-k, but without relief. Although he has pei’fect muscu- lar balance he has been ordered gymnastic exer- cises with prisms. He was wearing from a fa-, mous ophthalmologist of Chicago: R.—Sph. 0.25 + Cyl. 1.00 ax. 35°. L. + Cyl. 1.00 ax. 145°. His static error was found to be: R. + Cyl. 1.25 ax. 30°=20/20. L. + Cyl. 1.50 ax. 150°=20/20. ordered. He had previously been “done up” about once a week with his headache and awful pains in the left eye. He now writes that he has not had a severe headache since wearing the spec-- tacles ordered. One-half diopter of astigmatism uncorrected will often make all the difference be- tween happiness and misery.