| Description Of Item | Annotation refers to Lancet, 16 October 1864. Article refers to paper ‘On Sympathetic Ophthalmia; its Nature and Treatment’ by Mr George Lawson. Inflammation of the eye. Refers to ‘the peculiar relationship which the nervous systems of the two eyes bear to each other, so that when one eye is the subject of irritation a sympathetic action is set up in the other’.
From the collection of Thomas Laycock. |