Vision in health and disease; the value of glasses for its restoration, and the mischief caused by their abuse. Being the substance of lectures delivered at the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital / by Alfred Smee ... ; illustrated by one plate and numerous woodcuts.

  • Smee, Alfred, 1818-1877.
Date:
1847
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Credit: Vision in health and disease; the value of glasses for its restoration, and the mischief caused by their abuse. Being the substance of lectures delivered at the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital / by Alfred Smee ... ; illustrated by one plate and numerous woodcuts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 1. Healthy eye, shewing the fonn of the cornea. 2. Short sight from great dilatation of the anterior chamber of the cornea after Ammon. 3. Conical cornea. 4. Far sight. 5. Diagram shewing the muscles which move the globe of the eye. a a a. Recti or straight muscles. 6, Inferior-oblique muscle. 6. Vertical section of the human retina and hyaloid membrane. Hyaloid membrane. Ti\ Nuclei on its inner surface, c, Layer of transparent cells connecting the hyaloid and retina or grey nervous matter with its capillaries. 1. Its fibrous lamina. 2. Its vesi¬ cular lamina, g, Granular lamina. 3. Light lamina frequently seen in Jacob’s mem¬ brane (after Todd and Bowman). 7. Arteria centralis retinae, and the central spot of Soemmering (after Soemmering). 8. Drawing of the retina expanded over the vitreous humour, with the lens in situ, exhibit¬ ing also the arteria centralis retinae and central spot of Soemmering. 9. Lens, natural size. 10. Outer view of the iris and ciliary processes, after an injected preparation by the author. 11. Optic nerves, shewing the decussation of the fibres (after Arnold). 12. Membrana pupillaris, from a preparation injected by the author. 13. Eye, exhibiting the arcus senilis of old people. 14. Diagram exhibiting the relative position of anterior chamber (a), the lens (6), ciliary processes (c). 15. Magnified representation of choroid, ciliary processes, and iris, a. Capillary net-work at the back part of the eye. 5, Iris, c, Ciliary processes (after Arnold).