An appendix to the fourth edition of the Anatomy of the human body. To which are added, some observations relative to an erroneous statement made by J. Douglass [&c.]. From the Edinb. med. and surg. journal

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Página 13 - At first, he could bear but very little sight, and the things he saw, he thought extremely large; but upon seeing things larger, those first seen he conceived less, never being able to imagine any lines beyond the bounds he saw ; the room ho was in he said, he knew to be but part of the house, yet he could not conceive that the whole house could look bigger.
Página 13 - When he first saw, he was so far from making any judgment about distances, that he thought all objects whatever touched his eyes, as he expressed it, as what he felt did his skin; and thought no objects so agreeable as those which were smooth and regular, though he could form no judgment of their shape, or guess what it was in any object that was pleasing to him. He knew not the shape of any thing, nor any one thing from another, however different in shape or magnitude, but upon being told what things...
Página 13 - We thought he soon knew what pictures represented, which were shewed to him, but we found afterwards we were mistaken ; for about two months after he was couched he discovered...
Página 13 - He was very much surprised that those things which he had liked best, did not appear most agreeable to his eyes, expecting those persons would appear most beautiful that he loved most, and such things to be most agreeable to his sight that were so to his taste.
Página 13 - ... asking, how it could be, that a large face could be expressed in so little room; saying it should have seemed as impossible to him, as to put a bushel of anything into a pint.
Página 13 - ... expecting the pictures would feel like the things they represented, and was amazed when he found those parts, which by their light and shadow appeared now round and uneven, felt only flat like the rest, and asked which was the lying sense, feeling, or seeing...
Página 13 - Cheselden tells us, that the first time the boy saw a black object, it gave him great uneasiness ; and that some time after, upon accidentally seeing a negro woman, he was struck with great horror at the sight.
Página 12 - ... (by which the rays cannot be brought into a focus upon the retina) they can discern in no other manner, than a sound eye can through a...
Página 12 - ... asunder in a good light, yet when he saw them after he was couched, the faint ideas he had of them before were not sufficient for him to know them by afterwards ; and therefore he did not think them the same which he had before known by those names...
Página 14 - ... thought he could have no more pleasure in walking abroad than he had in the garden, which he could do safely and readily. And even blindness, he observed, had this advantage that he could go anywhere in the dark, much better than those who can see; and after he had seen, he did not soon lose this quality, nor desire a light to go about the house in the night.

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