This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 Excerpt: ...a few minutes, as the letters become blurred and confused. If he tries to write, he often mis-spells the commonest words; but he has no difficulty about figures. He is troubled with horrible dreams, and wakes up frightened and confused. His head is habitually hot, and often flushed. He complains of a dull confused ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 Excerpt: ...a few minutes, as the letters become blurred and confused. If he tries to write, he often mis-spells the commonest words; but he has no difficulty about figures. He is troubled with horrible dreams, and wakes up frightened and confused. His head is habitually hot, and often flushed. He complains of a dull confused sensation within it, and of loud noises which are constant. The hearing of the right ear is very dull. He cannot hear the tick of an ordinary watch at a distance of six inches from it. The hearing of the left ear is normal, he can hear the tick at a distance of about twenty inches. Noises, especially of a loud, sudden, or clattering character, distress him greatly. He cannot bear the noise of his own children at play. The vision of the left eye has been weak from childhood. That of the right, which has always been good, has become seriously impaired since the accident. He suffers from muscse volitantes, and sees a fixed line or bar, vertical in direction, across the field of vision. He complains also of flashes, stars, and coloured rings. Light, even of ordinary day, is especially distressing to him. In fact, the eye is so irritable that he has an abhorrence of light. He habitually sits in a darkened room, and cannot bear to look at artificial light--as of gas, candles, or fire. This intolerance of light gives a peculiarly frowning expression to his countenance. He knits and depresses his brows in order to shade his eyes. The senses of smell and taste seem to be somewhat perverted. He often thinks that he smells fetid odours which are not appreciable to others, and has lost his sense of taste to a great degree. He complains of a degree of numbness, and of "pins and needles" in the left arm and leg, also of pains in the left leg, and a fe...
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