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Plain home talk about the human system-the habits of men and women-the cause and prevention of disease-our sexual relations and social natures (1896) (14577888127)

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Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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d wasborn so, results from the natural con-traction of one set of muscles, and thenatural extension or relaxation of thoseon the opposite side; but this same po-sition of the eyes may be produced bydisease affecting the muscles; or it maybe acquired by practising it for sport;or a weakness of one set of musclesand a contraction of the other maygradually take place without any visiblecause. Strabismus generally must betreated both medically and surgically,and in my surgical department all op-erations of this kind are performed ina few minutes, by an experienced op-erator, who does the work so expertlyas to give the patient scarcely a particleof pain. When there is cerebral affec-tion or weakness of the eyes, medica-tion alone will sometimes overcome thedifficulty, but if not, it should eitherprecede or immediately follow an op-eration. Other Diseases of the EyeWill not be presented here, as more space than was originallyapportioned to this division of the chapter is already occupied. 1
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428 AFFECTIONS OF THE EYES AND EARS. will, therefore, call the readers attention to diseases of the ear, afterremarking that all affected with any diseases of the eyes, are at lib-erty to consult the author in relation thereto. In all letters of con-sultation, answers to the questions on page 600 should be given. Defective Hearing. If the non-professional reader could follow me through all thecircuitous paths of the ear without becoming befogged with thetechnical names anatomists have bestowed upon the various organstherein; if the common mind could be made conversant with thecomplex physical machinery of the organs of hearing; and then, ifwe could all of us comprehend the mysterious, ever-hidden connec-tion existing between the physical organs of sense and the consciousprinciple, we might cease to wonder at, but never to admire, thepeculiar mechanism by which all of us, gifted with the sense of hear-ing, are made conscious of so much that is passing in the materialworld through that

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