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  1. NLM Digital Collections - Elements of surgery 
    Publication: Philadelphia : E. Barrington and G.D. Haswell, 1846
    ... objects seem to be enshroud- ed in a mist, at first thin and shadowy, but gradually becoming opaque and- impenetrable; or a feeling is communicated of dark network obstructing the view. Unnatural impressions are made on the retina; flashes of strong light, or luminous sparks, appear ...
  2. ... to make a clear, sharp picture on the retina. The owner of such eyes lives in a visual mist or fog and strain, and rolls the eye ...
  3. ... photopsia. 407. The appearance of a gauze or mist, or " a skin with veins in it," appears to be the proper subjective effect of the congestion and exudation in inflammation of the vascular layer of the retina. 100 CAUSES OF OPHTHALMIC INFLAMMATION. 408. The other ...
  4. NLM Digital Collections - Elements of surgery 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, 1837
    ... all objects seem to be enshrouded in a mist, at first thin and shadowy, but gradually becoming opaque and impenetrable : or a feeling is communicated of dark network obstructing the view. Un- natural impressions are made on the retina; flashes of strong light, or luminous sparks, appear ...
  5. NLM Digital Collections - A treatise on the diseases of the eye 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Lea & Blanchard, 1843
    ... sight in the shape of dark gauze or mist, with grey or dark spots; dull redness of the eye from congestion in the vessels of the sclerotica, and changes in the iris and pupil. The affection extends to the retina and vitreous humour with irremediable blindness. Staphyloma scleroticae ...
  6. NLM Digital Collections - A treatise on the diseases of the eye 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Blanchard and Lea, 1854
    ... sight, in the shape of dark gauze or mist, with gray or dark spots; dull redness of the eye from con- gestion in the vessels of the sclerotica, and changes in the iris and pupil. The affection extends to the retina and vitreous humour with irremediable blindness. Staphyloma scleroticae ...
  7. ... are at fir.-1 seen as through a mist; light bodies appear to fly before the ... light to the retina. Four chief methods are employed for this purpose. ...
  8. ... has become an indispensable assistant to the anato- mist, but it cannot be depended upon alone. Fig. 47. Fig. 48. Fig. 49. Fig. 46, Diagram, and Fig. 47, Lateral view of the retina. From Pacini. A, White nervous fibres. B, Nerve ...
  9. ... patient compares the difficulty to that of a mist before the eyes. The ... the retina (retinitis albu- minurica). These appearances are distinctive of ...
  10. ... as en- veloped in a thick cloud or mist, or as covered by a species of gauze or network; the visas ne- bulosus or reticulatus of the old nosologists. In some rare instances, the retina is so irritable, that the patient is unable ...
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