BLINDNESS FROM SHOCK.
A series of cases gathered from recent war experience, and having a high degree of interest, consists of men who are found to be blind, though the most exact and skilful examination fails to detect an,, sign of organic injury, and, in time, and under the influence of rest, the patients 'ccuve r tho’r sight. Here, remarks the IJo r tal, the strain and shock 0? bam*, must have impaired, and impaired seriously, the functional nerve values of some portion of the visual apparatus, though all organic and objective cvi'V 'ce of such impairment escapes entirely the skill of the physician. Mischief has been dore, but it is mischief which clinical tests can neither recognise nor identify. The suggestion is obvious that these tests, valuable as everyone knows them to be, are not final and exhaustive, at least iu their negative announcemeats. Hence, says the paper, the conclusion has to be repeated that it is neither safe nor scientific to affirm that the effects of violence are non-existent because no objective evidences of such effects can be found.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1366, 25 February 1915, Page 4
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181BLINDNESS FROM SHOCK. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1366, 25 February 1915, Page 4
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