On the nature, symptoms, and treatment of the different species of amaurosis, or gutta serena.

  • Stevenson, John, 1778-1846?
Date:
1821
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Credit: On the nature, symptoms, and treatment of the different species of amaurosis, or gutta serena. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    state of the pupils of his eyes ; although he was not, when 1 first saw him, entirely destitute of the power of sensation and feeling. This case served to shew, in con- firmation of many similar pathological facts •on record, that pressure is the immediate cause of Amaurosis : and that this disease occasionally takes place in constitutions apparently little disposed to suffer from ce- rebral plethora and its consequences. These circumstances made a strong impression on my mind at the time they occurred, and laid the foundation for those subsequent re- flections, enquiries, and experiments, which have given birth to the present perform- ance. If what, has been advanced should be deemed imperfect and unsatisfactory, I may plead in excuse, the acknowledged difficulty of the undertaking. From preceding au- thors I could derive no assistance with respect to tlje etiology of the more obscure