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  1. NLM Digital Collections - Human physiology (Volume 1) 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1838
    ... dovetailed into it. It has, by some anato- mists, been consider- ed a prolongation of the dura mater, ac- companying the op- tic nerve; whilst the choroid has been re- garded as an exten- sion of the pia mater, and the retina, of the pulp of the nerve. The sclerotic ...
  2. NLM Digital Collections - Human physiology (Volume 1) 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Carey, Lea, & Blanchard, 1836
    ... dovetailed into it. It has, by some anato- mists, been consider- ed a prolongation of the dura mater, ac- companying the op- tic nerve; whilst the choroid has been re- garded as an exten- sion of the pia mater, and the retina, of the pulp of the nerve. a. 1ns— ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - Gelsemium sempervirens : a monograph 
    Publication: Boston : Otis Clapp & Son, 1883
    ... not even misty ; then there is a slight mist before the eyes, like smoke or a veil, and the sight begins to fail for distant objects, then with those nearer and nearer, which become hazy, and, final y, total blindness may result. The retina becomes filled with sluggish blood, its vessels dis- ...
  4. ... objects are at first seen as through a mist; light bodies appear to fly before the eyes, and not until after months or years is sight wholly lost. Operation alone will obviate the evil by removing obstacle to passage of light to the retina. The following methods are employed for this purpose, ...
  5. ... seems to the un- fatigued part of the retina, less saturated than the after- image, and looks as if it were covered by a whitish mist. These facts are perhaps enough. I will not ...
  6. ... of the right eye whilst at work. The mist which was at first not dense, increased, so ... signs. The retina and choroid could not be seen. The upper ...
  7. ... course, and has more the character of a mist or veil, than has that of amaurosis; at the same time that in cataract an opacity is more or less plainly perceptible, filling the space of the pupil. In amaurosis depending upon insensibility of the retina, the pa- tient sees best at noonday; the ...
  8. ... if everything in it were surrounded by a mist. This thick- ens till it ... evil has first seized the retina netlike skin the pa- tient sees only half ...
  9. ... light are intercepted on their way to the retina, and vision thus impaired or reduced to a mere perception of light and shade. In the commence- ment of the complaint, all objects appear enveloped in a mist, dirty and dusty; the flame of the candle ...
  10. ... which seemed as though viewed through a thick mist. Above and below, ... central part of the retina, there appeared a shining green- ish body, the ...
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