Ophthalmic Record: A Monthly Review of the Progress of Ophthalmology, Volume 12Fox, 1903 |
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Page 54 - The employment of subjective and objective mechanical means, to determine the accommodative and refractive states of the eye and the scope of its functions in general, or the act of adapting glasses to the eye by using such skilled means as will determine their choice.
Page 506 - Whereas: The value of perfect sight and hearing is not fully appreciated by educators, and neglect of the delicate organs of vision and hearing often leads to disease of these structures, therefore, be it Resolved: That it is the sense of the...
Page 101 - It is a peculiar fact that the letters and other writings of DeQuincey, Carlyle, Darwin, Huxley and Browning, liberal as they are with references to the continued illhealth of those great writers, have not before this suggested to the medical profession an opportunity for research into the causal factors of those physical conditions. That the opportunity has not until now been recognized in its proper light is evidenced by the hitherto total absence of any work dealing with this subject. Dr. George...
Page 608 - Medical Association that measures be taken by boards of health, boards of education and school authorities, and where possible, legislation secured, looking to the examination of the eyes and ears of all school children, that disease in its incipiency may be discovered and corrected.
Page 607 - Eicketts has been elected chairman of the committee of arrangements. The following are the officers of the Association elected at Memphis: President, Edwin Walker, MD, Evansville, Ind. ; presidentelect, Hugh T. Patrick, MD, Chicago, 111.; first vice-president, Bransford Lewis, MD, St.
Page 95 - ... tissue, constitute a more delicate biological test for the detection of certain toxins than the tests usually employed for this purpose. 4. The experiments recorded in this paper furnish additional examples, in a comparatively new field, of the importance of toxins in explaining the pathogenic action of bacteria, and likewise emphasize the etiological significance of injuries of the covering membrane of the eye in favoring the actions of toxins and of bacteria.
Page 63 - ... and a photograph is formed. The decomposition of the visual purple by light chemically stimulates the ends of the cones, and a visual impulse is set up which is conveyed through the optic nerve fibres to the brain. I have examined the retinas of several monkeys after they had been kept in a dark room, and found that the visual purple was to be seen in the yellow spot, but situated between, and not in, the cones.
Page 95 - Bacteria which had not previously been proven to produce soluble toxins were found to produce them even in young cultures, and it is suggested that injections of bacterial filtrates into the eye, particularly into the conjunctival tissue, constitute a more delicate biological test for the detection of certain toxins than the tests usually employed for this purpose. 4. The experiments recorded in this paper furnish additional examples, in a comparatively new field, of the importance of toxins in explaining...
Page 64 - The visual center is, therefore, acted upon by impulses caused by all rays of light, the color- perceiving center being concerned with the quality of the impulse within the power of perceiving differences possessed by that center, or portions of that center.
Page 607 - The twentyfourth annual meeting of the Mississippi Valley Medical Association will be held at Nashville, Tenn., October 11-14, under the presidency of Dr.