A case of electric light burn of the eyes with transient blindness / by Burton Chance.

  • Chance, Burton Kollock, 1868-1965.
Date:
1907
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Credit: A case of electric light burn of the eyes with transient blindness / by Burton Chance. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    believe it is well for us to recall them by a. study of this case. Laboratories are being erected and experiments in photodynamics are being pursued as never before. It is for us to warn all persons engaged in such investigations of the dangers attending the careless exposure of their eyes to the rays from powerful lamps. Instances of light blindness have oc- curred in my public services but I have had no opportunity to study them. Cases of electric-light blindness and burns are not really rare. Although they have been but little written about, there is sufldcient liter- ature upon the subject for their character- istics to be generally understood. Thetr likeness to the symptoms produced by in- cautious gazing at the sun, as at an eclipse (some of the effects of which were marked in my own person several years ago), as well as to those of snow-blindness has also been noticed. It has not seemed necessary to me, therefore, in this paper, to do more than to describe a single instance which has come under my observation.