The Eye in its Relation to Health ================================= By Chalmer Prentice, M.D. Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Company, 1895 Transcription (c) A. Wik, 2004 +-------+ | Index | pages 211-214 +-------+ 211 Abnormal innervation, 26-27; causes | Consumption, 64. Case X, 104; diseases of the eye, 43. | case XI, 105; case XII, 107; case Accommodation, broken down, 142. | XIV, 110-111. Accommodation, 153. | Correction of manifest defects Action of medicines, 56. | gives only temporary relief, 185- Advancement of the ocular mus- | 188. cles a new operation, 189. | Correlation, 153-154. Advance medical science, 8. | Critic, a, 7. Alcoholism, cure for, 49-53. | Alterations of function are all pri- | Danger lies in the eyes remaining marily central in the nervous sys- | in that abnormally balanced con- tem, 19. | dition that is threatening life. Anatomical location of nerve-cen- | Case IV, 95. ters, 20-21, 35. | Deafness, ovaritis and general de- Apparent defects, 177-178. | bility. Case XX, 125. Art gallery and sight seeing ex- | Defect in one muscle sometimes cites the nerve-centers, 24. | hides defects in others, 99. Assimilation, 19-20. | Diabetes, 47. Case V, 95; case Asthma, 48. | VII, 98; case XVII, 114. Astigmatism, 151-152. | Development of the ocular mus- Atom of the body, every, has some | cles, 174-176. office, 17-19. | Differential test, 156-158. Atrophy of the optic nerves and | Diffusion tests, 167-170. general debility. Case XVI, 113. | Disease, causes of, 5, 65-67; im- | munity from, 44-46; we do not Before operating, 182. | inherit disease, 64; diseases of Belief in long established theories | the eye due to abnormal inner- quite natural, 16. | vation, 43; disease is localized Blood simply a carrier, 20. | nervous derangement, 46; dis- Bronchitis, chronic. Case XIV, | ease and health, 40. 109. | Distances, judgment of, 153-154. | Double vision after tenotomies, Cataphoria and hyperphoria, 178. | 185. Cataract, 43. | Catarrh, 48, 59. | Effect, every, has a cause, 23, 61. Cathartic a, acts on the nerve | Endurance of various nerve-cen- centers, 61-62. | ters, 33-34. Caution in testing, 135-136. | Epilepsy. Case VIII, 99. Ciliary muscle, 137. | Esophoria, 174-177. Constipation a nerve-center de- | Excitement emphasizes functions, rangement, 61. | 18. 212 Experience in old methods of no | Hay fever, 48. value in formulating opinions of | Health and disease, 40. new methods, 8. | Health may continue to improve Exophoria, 177. | for years, 78. Eye muscles, 68; complex arrange- | Health must be carefully guarded ment of, 69; physiology of the, | when restored, 78. 171, 173; why defects in the eye | Homeopathic principle, 56. muscles are so deeply hidden, | Horizontalizing tendency and ver- 75-76; defects in the eye muscles | ticalizing tendency, 35-39. locked together, 154-155. | Hypermetropia, manifest and Eye-strain, evidence of the univer- | latent, 137-139; functional mani- sality of, 70-76, 130. | fest, 138; non-functional mani- Eye-strain, latent, often causes | fest, 138. nervous derangement, 43; repres- | Hyperphoria and cataphoria, 178. sive, 132. | Hypnotic phenomena, the force Eye-strain, manifest, causes little | that produces the, 195, 207. disturbance, 133-134. | Eyes of new-born infants, 71. | Immunity from disease, 44-46. Eyes of the dead, 72. | Imperfect structure co-existent Eyes of the dipsomaniac after | with perfect vision, 9-14. death, 73-74. | Inflammation, 53. Eyes that perform perfect vision | Insanity. Case XIX, 116. may have serious defects, 70. | Intent of this work, 42. | Feeling is all in the nerve-cent- | Judgment of distance, 153-154. ers, 55. | Just estimate can be arrived at Five senses, the, are feelings, 33. | only by perusing all the pages, 8. Fogging, 141-142, also 155-164; some- | times induces sleep, 142-143. | Latent, muscular defect. Case Function, every, is performed by | III, 87. nerve or motive impulse, 17. | Laws of refraction in an advanced Function, normal or abnormal, is | state, 9. characterized by the nature of | Lesion, a, is always a result and the nerve-impulse, 21-23, 45; func- | not a cause, 41, 60. tions are emphasized under ex- | citement, 18. | Medicines, action of, 56. Functional disturbances, contin- | Mental suggestion 14-15, 195, 207. ued, result in organic disease, 55. | Metastasis, 53-54. Function, character of, depends | Microbe theory, 44-46. on the character of nerve-force | Motor ataxy, 65. Case VI, 96. supply, 21-22. | Muscular defects, how they mani- Fusion, 35-39; 135. | fest themselves. Case I, 79; | partly manifest, case II, 81; Glaucoma, 43. | latent, case III, 87; manifest Growth and formation of all parts | muscle defects more common in of the body are influenced by a | the lateral muscles, 167, 178; person's surroundings, 28-34. | muscle defects may be entirely Growth of tumors, 41, 55. | latent to diffusion tests, 42. Gymnastic exercises of the ocular | Muscular weakness, 129. muscles, 131. | 213 Mydriatics -- hyoscyamine, atro- | Organic disease the result of con- pine and their congeners, 139. | tinued functional disturbance, 55. Myopia takes it origin as hyper- | Organic products depend on the metropia, 143-151; its probable | nature of the nerve-impulses, 63. cause and how to guard against | Orthophoria, relative and individ- it, 149-151. | ual, 165. | Ovaritis, 54, 60-61. Names of diseases, 46-48. | Ovaritis and diabetes. Case III, Negligence, evidence of, 102. | 87; case IV, 91. Nerve-center, each, is intimately | Over-develop, can we, a muscular connected with all other nerve- | defect, 180. centers, 27. | Nerve-centers, 20-21; anatomical | Paralysis and complete loss of location of, 35; what part of the | mind. Case XVIII, 115. nerve-centers has the greatest in- | Paralysis, cure of. Case IX, 102. fluence, 28-29. | Paresis, 129. Nerve-centers compared with the | Part of the body, every, is like an electric dynamo, 25. | engine, 17-18. Nerve-impulses, afferent and ef- | Perfect brain, a, its tendency is to a ferent, 58, 63-64; the prime mover | perfect body and a perfect life, 73. in all functions, 42; obstinacy of | Perfect pair of eyes, not one in a established nerve-impulse, 78. | hundred, 69-70. Nerves supplying the ocular mus- | Perfect vision under serious eye cles, 171. | defects, 178-179. Nerve transplantation, 63. | Positions of the head, 181. Nerves are passive and without | Power of the eye to hide defects, feeling, 48-49. | 74-75. Nervous derangement often the | Physiology of the eye muscles, 171, result of eye-strain that is en- | 173. tirely latent, 43. | Neurosthenia and neurasthenia, | Reflex and reflex diseases, 58-59. 26. | Relief of pain is no evidence of New correlation, 76, 78. | cure, 76-77. New methods produce new re- | Repressing abnormal innervation sults, 7. | differs from the correction of Number of degrees of deviation in | muscular insufficiency, 13. the optic axes can never deter- | Repression, 145, 158-164. mine the amount of eye-strain, | Repressive eye-strain, 132. 133. | Reverse manifestation, 12. Case | IV, 91. Obstinacy of established nerve- | impulse, 78. | Secondary reflexes, 65. Ocular muscles, relative strength | Shaking palsy. Case XV., 112. of, 129; advancement of, a new | Shortening of the stretched muscle operation, 189; gymnastic exer- | after operation, 184. cise of the, 131. | Sight awakens a feeling of all the Offer of clinical demonstrations, | other senses, 30-31; is an active 8-9. | function requiring vital energy Optic axes, 35-39; why they deviate, | or nerve-force, 24-25. 129. | Sight, taste, smell and hearing, | 29-31. 214 Stretched muscles are undevel- | Verticalizing tendency and hori- oped, 153, 183-184. | zontalizing tendency, 35-39. Suggestive mental poison, 207. | Visual centers, 35-37; they are the Symptom tests, 161-162. | most sensitive, 34. Systemic depressants and stimu- | lants, their influence, 139. | We do not inherit disease, 64. | What part of the nerve-centers Tabulated clinics, 126-128. | has the greatest influence, 28-29. Tendency of a perfect brain is to a | Why defects in the eye-muscles perfect body and a perfect life, 73.| are so deeply hidden, 75-76, 80; Too much light is injurious, 31-32. | locked together, 154-155. Transplantation of nerves, 63. | Why man and wife grow to look Tumors, growth of, 41, 55. | alike, 28. +--------------+ | End of Index | pages 211-214 +--------------+