Art of Preserving the Sight Unimpaired to Extreme Old Age: And of Re-establishing and Strengthening it when it Becomes Weak ; with Instructions how to Proceed in Accidental Cases which Do Not Require the Assistance of Professional Men, and the Mode of Treatment Proper for the Eyes During, and Immediately After, the Small-pox ; to which are Added Observations on the Inconveniences and Dangers Arising from the Use of Common Spectacles |
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Page i - THE ART of PRESERVING the SIGHT unimpaired to an extreme Old Age ; and of re-establishing and strengthening it when it becomes weak : with Instructions how to proceed in Accidental cases, which do not require the assistance of professional men, and the mode of Treatment proper for the Eyes during and immediately after...
Page 75 - ... you; but with patience and repeated trials he will by degrees be able to keep his distorted eye fixed upon you, at least for some little time, after the other is opened; and when you have brought him to continue the axes 'of both eyes fixed upon you as you...
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Page 95 - ... to its natural position, with respect to other objects which we see and compare it with. If we lay hold of an upright stick in the dark, we can tell which is the upper or lower part of it, by moving our hand upward or downward ; and know very well that we cannot feel the upper end by moving our hand downward.
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Page 238 - Common spectacles made as it were by chance, and as it is vulgarly termed, though iruly, manufactured by wholesale from all sorts of defective materials, even sometimes from the common window glass, are much to be complained of; and if the public could be brought to reflect seriously upon the dangerous effects which result from their use, the whole tribe of Jew opticians (as dangerous to the full as the quackery oculist) would soon be deprived of a venal gain, founded upon the ignorance and inattention...
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Page 95 - ... that we cannot feel the upper end by moving our hand downward. Just so we find by experience that upon directing our eyes towards a tall object, we cannot see its top by turning our eyes downward, nor its foot by turning our eyes upward ; but must trace the object the same way by the eye to see it from head to foot, as we do by the hand to feel it : and as the judgment is informed by the motion of the hand in one case, so it is also by the motion of the eye in the other.
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