A dissertation upon the gutta serena, the paralysis of the retina, and the progress of cataracts : Together with a new method to cure these disorders, and check them in their origin / By Dr. Chalibert, Oculist.

  • Chalibert, Oculist.
Date:
1774
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Credit: A dissertation upon the gutta serena, the paralysis of the retina, and the progress of cataracts : Together with a new method to cure these disorders, and check them in their origin / By Dr. Chalibert, Oculist. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Paralyfis of the Retina announces itfelf by a weaknefs, or a diminution of light, by a weight in the eye-lids, by fhooting in the globe of the eye, by pains above the eye-brows, upon the temples, behind the head; particularly, as the night advances, clouds feem to appear before the light: it feems as if one looked through a piece of gauze or mu Ain, after having fixed one’s eye upon an object for a length of time : it happens too, that, after a long applica¬ tion to reading, the words appear con- fufed, like long black ftrokes, without diftindtion or feparation; this fign is particularly dangerous, and the Para- ralyfis of the Retina is to be feared in proportion to the number of thefe figns. If it has been judged neceffary, by men of the greateft difcernment, to re¬ ject all together the fpirit of fyftema- tizing,