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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    been derived from the description given the patients themselves. Whenever I am informed that the edges of the eye-lids have a disposition, be it ever so slight, to adhere to each other after they have been long in contact, as during the time of sleep, and when this is accompanied with an uncomfort- able sense of weight in the lids on the ap- proach of night, in consequence whereof the patient involuntarily shuts them without be- ing drowsy, and without any particular sti- mulus being applied to the eye to give it pain, I always suspect that the secretion of the cilary glands is in a diseased state; and in many such cases, I fyave found the suc- cess attending the use of the unguentum hy- drargyri nitrati, recommended for the cure of this disorder, quite as effectual as in those other instances, where the excoriation and redness of the eye-lids have been visible on the slightest inspection. There are, however, several symptoms