Observations on hemeralopia; or, Nocturnal blindness, with cases, and practical illustrations / by Andrew Simpson.

Date:
1819
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    llth. Has more command over the levator pal- pebrae superioris, and says he can see distinctly; four stools. Repetantur Reinedia. 13th. He seems to have a little cast in either eye, especially when he directs them suddenly to distant objects; but he may be said to be relieved from the ocular complaint, for which he applied. The double vision, &c. have ceased. Continuen- tur Remedia. 14th. Scarcely any complaint. Continuentur omnia. 15th. Ocular ailment seemingly removed. O- mittantur medicamina omnia praeter pilulas, quas Sumat per aliquod tempus. The Author has taken the liberty to narrate the foregoing Cases, not with the view of swelling his pamphlet, but more especially in the way of de- scription and illustration, and as complete evidence also of the occasional difficulties, and even dange- rous state of constitution, with which Hemerail- opia may be frequently complicated; and further, that the practitioner should generally, in these cases, have special regard to the systematic devia- tion from the standard of health, and thus the symptomatic phaenomena will ordinarily be the more conveniently conquerable. *. CHAPMAN, PRINTER, Trvngaic, (iUugorv.