DERANGEMENTS OF VISION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1166, 27 October 1883, Page 3

DERANGEMENTS OF VISION.

In the February of 1837, a laborer had a severe fall upon the ice, and was removed in an insensible condition to his house. Returning to consciousness, he complained of a slight pain in the right super orbital region, where the blow caused a tumour to arise equal in size to a closed fist. Both the pain and swelling disappeared in two days, And on the fourth day he returned to his work. But he soon found himself unable to calculate distances, stumbling over things which seemed to be some distance trom him, and omitting to descend steps down which he fell because he thought he had not reached them. An object within a foot of him appeared to be six feet or more away, and a man forty paces off had the appearance of being distant about a quarter of German mile. Color and form he perceived accurately enough in objects which he believed hn was near, but those which he was actually near, but which he conceived to be distant, bad their forms less distinct r.nd their colors faint. By closing the left eye objects were made to appear, as they actually were, near or distant ; but they retreated immediately when he opened it, and after looking at them for some time their outlines became doubled, worm-like spectres began to appear with moving lines, and his ideas became strangely confused. At the same time he experienced a tingling in the ears, and grew giddy. Closing the left eve immediately removed such uncomfortable effects. The only outward sign of deranged vision was a plight squint in the left eye when it was turned upwards.—The World of Wonders. '■•