An American Text-book of Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat

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George Edmund De Schweinitz, Burton Alexander Randall
W. B. Saunders, 1899 - 1251 pages
 

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Page 7 - ... the student gains the point of view of a number of teachers. In a measure he reaps the same benefit as would be obtained by following courses of instruction under different teachers.
Page 7 - Morocco, $8.00 net. This work is essentially a text-book on the one hand, and, on the other, a volume of reference to which the practitioner may turn and find a series of articles written by representative authorities on the subjects portrayed by them.
Page 1 - An American Text-Book of Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat," edited by GE de Schweinitz, AM, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia; Consulting Ophthalmologist to the Philadelphia Polyclinic; Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Philadelphia Hospital and to the Orthopedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases; B.
Page 513 - The skin and muscular layer are now dissected from the incision down to the roots of the eyelashes, and, while an assistant is holding the edges of the wound well separated, the operator seizes with forceps and excises with curved scissors the muscular fibers running transversely across the upper border of the tarsus.
Page 160 - ... and refraction, which pertain to the macula in the act of direct vision, the function of sight capable of being performed by the rest of the retina is called indirect vision. The limits of the visual field may be roughly ascertained in the following manner: Place the patient with his back to the source of light, and have him fix the eye under examination, the other being covered, upon the center of the face of the observer or upon the eye of the observer which is directly opposite his own, at...
Page 159 - Hyperphoria (right or left) : A tending of the right or left visual line in a direction above its fellow. This term does not imply that the line to which it is referred is too high, but that it is higher than the other, without indicating which may be at fault. III. Compound Terms. — Tendencies in oblique directions may be expressed as hyperesophoria, a tending upward and inward ; or hyperexophoria, a tending upward and outward. The designation "right
Page 453 - I believe, from convincing evidence, to lesion of the cuneus only, or of it and the gray matter immediately surrounding it on the mesial surface of the occipital lobe, in the hemisphere opposite to the dark half fields.
Page 454 - I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER I REMEMBER, I remember The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn ; He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day, But now I often wish the night Had borne my breath away ! I remember, I remember...
Page 157 - The effect of the double prism (each 6°) is to make the line appear to be two, each parallel with the other. The other eye is now uncovered, and a third line is seen between the other two, with which it should be perfectly parallel.
Page 102 - This amounts to the same with saying, that, in the case before us, the sine of the angle of incidence is to the sine of the angle of refraction in a given ratio.

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