Border Lines of Knowledge in Some Provinces of Medical Science An Introductory
Border Lines of Knowledge in Some Provinces of Medical Science An Introductory
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
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* " An impression made on the right eye alone by a single object may* propagate itself into the left, and there raise up an image almost equal in vividness to itself; and consequently when we see with one eye only, we may, however, have pictures in both eyes. " Hartley, in 1784, had anticipated many of the doctrines which have since been systematized into the theory of reflex actions, and with which I have attempted to associate this act of reflex vision. My sixth ex- periment, however, in the ...communication referred to, * Vol. I. P. 207. London, 1801. IN MEDICAL SCIENCE. 51 appears to me to be a crucial one, proving the cor- rectness of my explanation, and I am not aware that it has been before instituted. Another point of great interest connected with the physiology of vision, and involved for a long time in great obscurity, is that of the adjustment of the eye to different distances. Dr. Clay Wallace, of New York, who published a very ingenious little book on the eye about twenty years ago, with vignettes reminding one of Bewick, was among the first, if not the first, to de- scribe the ciliary muscle, to which the power of adjust- ment is generally ascribed.
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