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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ... tion comes and goes, like all the other symptoms, being very bad in the morning, and almost disappearing by night, or perhaps in the course of an hour or two. I have now under care a patient in whom this symptom is a very striking one. When at its worst, he looks as though he had been drinking heavily, or as though he were suffering from a very severe cold in his eyes. The condition, or rather the tendency to the condition, is a chronic one, and increases and disappears in proportion to the improvement in his nervous system. Disturbances of the Nerves of Special Sense.--A malady of the eye is what I may call neurasthenic asthenopia, or the irritable eye, from nervous exhaustion, not depending solely on any muscular or accommodative trouble, but mainly symptomatic, revealing nothing very satisfactory to the ophthalmoscope or other tests of modern ophthalmology, but none the less painful, distressing, and sometimes exceedingly obstinate. This disease of the eye, symptomatic of nervous exhaustion, I observed a number of years ago, but could find no formal recognition of it in the standard text-books of ophthalmology. Dr. Mathewson, in conversation on the subject, tells me that this third form of asthenopia is now, however, under various names, coming into recognition in the journals and societies devoted to diseases of the eye. For a time it was supposed that Donders had solved all the problems of asthenopia; but it is now known that there are many cases that cannot be cured by glasses. These cases are common in this country, and, Dr. Eoosa tells me, were first observed by our ophthalmologists. An attack of this neurasthenic asthenopia--which is oftentimes so severe that reading or writing or sewing are accomplished only with great pain, ..
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- PublisherTheclassics.Us
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1230256237
- ISBN 13 9781230256238
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages74
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