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XXIV.—On a New Property of the Retina

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2013

Extract

In a paper on Hemiopsy, published in the present volume of the Transactions (p. 15), I have mentioned the remarkable fact, that the parts of the retina which are insensible to visual, are sensible to luminous impressions, the light being occasioned by irradiation from the adjacent parts of the retina. The parts thus affected in hemiopsy extend irregularly from the foramen centrale to the margin of the retina; but the space which they occupy is so small, their distribution so irregular, and the time of their continuance so short, that it is difficult to make such observations upon them as would establish a general property of the retina.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1866

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References

page 327 note * Philosophical Magazine, July 1865, vol. xxx. p. 19.