On the morbid sensibility of the eye, commonly called weakness of sight / by John Stevenson.

  • Stevenson, John, 1778-1846?
Date:
1811
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Credit: On the morbid sensibility of the eye, commonly called weakness of sight / by John Stevenson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4 its progress is much more rapid, when it ge- nerally terminates in complete gutta serena, or total blindness. Various and extremely contradictory reme- dies have been recommended by oculists for the cure of this very formidable complaint; which, however, I shall forbear at this time enumerating. The first thing to be attended to is, to allow the eye as much rest as possi- ble, and to avoid particularly what may be considered the exciting causes of the disease. It is, I believe, in many cases absolutely in- curable : and the only remedies which I have ever known to prove beneficial, are topical stimulants, as * electricity, galvanism, aether, * I think it consonant with the present discussion to remark, that some cases which were deemed instances of gutta serena, I have ascertained to be examples of ac- tual dulness of sight, and that they derived the most essential assistance from the application of the electric and galvanic influence. And I cannot forbear to add, that a few cases of blindness, which have fallen under