Functional nervous diseasesAppleton, 1887 - 217 pages |
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Page 11
... means of combating those influences . If the author has presented to his profession one such new class of influences which shall be found of signal im- portance , his purpose will have been fully accom- plished . FUNCTIONAL NERVOUS ...
... means of combating those influences . If the author has presented to his profession one such new class of influences which shall be found of signal im- portance , his purpose will have been fully accom- plished . FUNCTIONAL NERVOUS ...
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... means existed , be supplied by a convex lens , but ordinarily the ob- ject is attained by causing the crystalline lens to assume greater convexity - in other words , by the act of accommodation . In the hypermetropic eye , then ...
... means existed , be supplied by a convex lens , but ordinarily the ob- ject is attained by causing the crystalline lens to assume greater convexity - in other words , by the act of accommodation . In the hypermetropic eye , then ...
Page 34
... means sufficient to bring relief to the nervous condi- tion . When once a neuralgic , choreic , or epileptic habit has been long established , not only may it be necessary to remove the principal source of irritation , but all ...
... means sufficient to bring relief to the nervous condi- tion . When once a neuralgic , choreic , or epileptic habit has been long established , not only may it be necessary to remove the principal source of irritation , but all ...
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... means of prisms which the ocular muscles are called upon to overcome in order to maintain single vision ; prisms of gradually increasing strength being employed . As other references to such exercising of the ocular muscles will be made ...
... means of prisms which the ocular muscles are called upon to overcome in order to maintain single vision ; prisms of gradually increasing strength being employed . As other references to such exercising of the ocular muscles will be made ...
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... means employed for its treat- ment . But if we compare the results of treatment of asthenopia with the results obtained in the treatment of headaches by similar means , we can not fail to see that the latter form of complaint yields as ...
... means employed for its treat- ment . But if we compare the results of treatment of asthenopia with the results obtained in the treatment of headaches by similar means , we can not fail to see that the latter form of complaint yields as ...
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accommodation aches adducting power affections anomalies apoplexy asthenopia atropine attacks Bright's disease brother died cause chorea chronic ciliary muscle Cloth complaint continued convex correction crystalline lens Cured cylindrical glass degree died of Bright's died of consumption died of fever diplopia distance emmetropic epilepsy epileptic esophoria examined external recti muscles families Father died frequently head headaches heart-disease hereditary hypermetropia hyperopia hyperopic hyperphoria improved insane instances insufficiency internal irritation known less manifest Medical mental metre metropia migraine months mother died muscular myopia myopic astigmatism nerve nervous diseases nervous energy Neural neuralgia neurasthenia neuroses occurred ocular conditions ocular defects ocular muscles oculists pain parallel rays patient permanent physician presbyopia prism ralgia recti muscles rectus refractive error relief Result of treatment retina sclera seen shown sister died slight spherical strabismus suffered symptoms tendency tendon tenotomy thenia tion twenty feet vision visual lines weeks
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