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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    f INTRODUCTION. I ii K organ of vision is unquestionably the most valuable, the most indispensible, and the most ornamental of all our senses. In proportion therefore to the acknowledged im- portance of the Eye, its loss or imperfection, has ever been justly dreaded and deplored as a most giievous misfortune. In consequence however of the exposed situation, peculiar economy, and complicated structure of the Eye, it is liable to a derangement of its func- tions from many external, as well as internal, causes. Hence, ocular complaints must have prevailed more or less in 3II climates, and with* different degrees of violence according to ex- iting circumstances, from the remotest ages of antiquity to the present asra. Of late years, however, a dreadful Ophthal- mia, before unknown amongst us, has been introduced into this country from Egypt, and