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Page 315 - ... it with the other eye alone, with equal facility; but never turned the axes of both eyes on it at the same time.
Page 315 - A very convincing proof of this may be drawn from a fact now well known to philosophers ; when one eye is shut, there is a certain space within the field of vision, where we can see nothing at all ; the space which is directly opposed to that part of the bottom of the eye where the optic nerve enters. This defect of sight, in one part of the eye, is common to all human eyes, and hath been so from the beginning of the world ; yet it was never known, until the sagacity of the Abbe Mariotte discovered...
Page 409 - The measles of 1670,' says the same distinguished physician, ' began very early, that is, at the beginning of January, and, increasing daily, came to their height in March ; afterwards they gradually decreased, and were quite extinguished in the following July.
Page 213 - That the strength of his understanding, the accuracy of his discernment, and the ardour of his curiosity, might have been remarked from his infancy, by a diligent observer, there is no reason to doubt. For there is no instance of any man, whose history has been minutely related, that did not in every part of life discover the same proportion of intellectual vigour.
Page 396 - Highmorianum, and the Duke recovered immediately, and has never suffered the disease since. The bone had been hurt probably by a fall from his horse which the Duke had met with some months before. The late Earl of C. underwent martyrdom by this disease, and excited the warmest sympathy of his friends by the agonies he sustained for many years. He submitted to the operation for the division of several branches of the fifth pair of nerves repeatedly, by Sir Everard Home and by Mr. Charles Bell, without...
Page 409 - Jamieson's assertion. Sydenham, who saw the plague of 1665, and who lived before inoculation was practised, describes smallpox as at one time rarely appearing, or not at all ; then beginning to show itself at the approach of the vernal equinox, spreading more and more every day, becoming epidemic about autumn, abating on the coming of winter, and returning again in the spring. The measles of 1670, says the same physician, began very early, that is, at the...
Page 315 - ... occasioned by the form of a cap or head-dress, which might have been too prominent on the sides of his face, like bluffs used on coach-horses, and might, in early infancy, have made it more convenient for the child to view objects placed obliquely with the opposite eye, till by habit the adductores were become stronger, and more ready for motion than their antagonists. Darwin recommended a paper gnomon to be made, and fixed to a cap. When this artificial nose was placed over his real nose, so...
Page 397 - She was free from pain during the last six months of her life, which terminated in apoplexy. " The head was opened after death, and an enormous thickening was observed of the frontal, ethmoidal, and sphenoidal bones, in one part to the extent of half an inch ; and the anterior lobes of the brain were curiously moulded and indented by the thickened bone. There was thickening also of the whole of the cranium, but not to so great a degree any where as in the parts which have just been named.
Page 104 - I have found, on trial, the method by carbonic acid to be exceedingly slow and unsatisfactory. After passing a current of this gas for a whole day through the chloride diffused in tepid water, I found the liquid still to possess the power of discharging the colour very readily from litmus paper.
Page 396 - Home and by Mr. Charles Bell, without obtaining more than mere temporary relief. At length he was seized by apoplexy, and lay insensible for some days, and in great peril from the attack, but finally recovered. After the apoplexy, the paroxysms of the tic douloureux became less frequent, and less severe, and were administered to satisfactorily by an ingenious physician, who wrote his inaugural exercise on the disease. For the last year or two of his life, his lordship had ceased to suffer from the...