The doctor now followed Belinda, and satisfied himself by ocular demonstration, that this cabinet was the retirement of disease, and not of pleasure.
To this argument it might be added in the case of this particular axiom (for the assertion would not be true of all axioms), that the evidence of it from actual ocular inspection is not only unnecessary, but unattainable.
According to it, the normal intra-ocular tension depends on the volume of fluids within the eyeball.
It is well known, this observer points out, that after the period of excitation and muscular rigidity disappears, there is a lowering of blood pressure in chloroform narcosis and coincidently a sinking of the intra-ocular pressure.
In the eye there is probably a normal equilibrium between blood pressure, tissue activity, and intra-ocular tension.
Glaucoma secondary to intra-ocular hemorrhage, operations on the lens or its capsule, or severe nutritional disturbance may be capable of such explanation.
In such cases the intra-ocular tension does not rise suddenly; and it may be little or not at all elevated above the usual normal limit.
Very interesting are the observations on the subconjunctival injections of various substances, notably the citrate of sodium, because of its power of decreasing the affinity of ocular colloids for water.
A sudden relaxation of the arterial walls, that would permit the arterial blood pressure to make itself felt in the eye, might cause an important rise of intra-ocular tension and may be a factor in the etiology of acute attacks.
Referring particularly to the reduction of intra-ocular tension, many surgeons have been impressed with the value of various instruments.
Such potent alkaloids as atropin, cocain, homatropin and pilocarpin, which are often used inocular surgery, were not found.
Naturally, there are cases in which an ocular examination cannot be satisfactorily made.
The "white body" of the adult ocular capsule forming as an invagination of the outer cell-layer.
C, Ocular unit or ommatidium of compound Eye of Scutigera.
From the two upper lobes, which are set transversely, arise the ocular nerves; from the two lower lobes, which are united by a transverse commissure, spring the antennal nerves in front and the chords which form the oesophageal collar behind.
The retinal portion is composed of a corresponding number of ocular units or ommatidia.
Paralysis of the muscle supplied by the third nerve is frequently associated with paralysis of other ocular muscles.
It generally occurs before the age of four, is associated with increased intra-ocular tension, protrusion of the eyeball, and dilatation of the pupil, and soon produces blindness.
Sometimes the ocular muscles and nerves are damaged, and deviation of the eye or loss of motion in one or other direction results.
In basal meningitis, temporary squinting due to irritation of the ocular muscles, retraction of the head, and an excessively high temperature are usually prominent features.
The infant may suffer from convulsions; there may be paralysis of certain of theocular muscles, and inequality of the pupils; sometimes there is blindness.
Fracture of the margin of the orbit results from a direct blow, and is followed by circum-orbital and sub-conjunctival ecchymosis, and sometimes is associated with paralysis of the optic nerve, or of the other ocular nerves.
I can vouch for the fact that even the earliest tenotomy of the ocular muscles is of no avail against congenital amblyopia.
Still the elastic tension of the ocular muscles decides even here; if the interni preponderate, convergent squint results, when the myopic eye is used for near objects, the emmetropic for distant ones.
For though many Writers have much enlarged hereon, yet is there not any ocular describer, or such as presumeth to confirm it upon aspection.
And although we have not had the advantage of our own observation, yet have we received the like confirmation from many ocular spectators.
As ocular enquiry informeth; and as unto such as have not had the opportunity to behold them, their proper pourtraicts will discover in Rondeletius, Gesner, and Aldrovandus.
Which much confirmeth the testimony of the Bishop of Tyre a diligent and ocular Enquirer; who in his holy war doth thus deliver himself.
Whereto we might also add the ocular confirmation of Lacuna upon Dioscorides, Ferdinandus Imperatus, and that learned Physician of Naples, Aurelius Severinus.
That therefore an Ostrich will swallow and take down Iron, is easily to be granted: that oftimes it pass entire away, if we admit of ocular testimony not to be denied.
Manifold ocular illusions appear in the mirage and deceive the uninitiated.
It is an uncanny movement and is something more than an ocular illusion, as the victim is ready to testify.
The ocular witness adds two circumstances which are very remarkable; the first is, that the religious habit which this holy child wore disappeared, and could never afterwards be found.
I told him that this was equivalent to an apparition; for here was an ocular demonstration of the existence and operation of an intelligent invisible being, &c.
Some of hisocular marvels have been confirmed by no questionable authority.
Only on such a basis could the syphilitic ocular palsy of Case 19 be satisfactorily explained.
There had never been any vertigo, nausea, vomiting, deafness, ocular disorder, or disorder of equilibration.
In fact, this ocular pleasure afforded him more true joy than almost the best chapters.
He thought, namely, of the paper, hitherto hidden by the cloud of sorrow, which Schoppe had brought out of the princely vault, and of the maternal image which he was to have found under the ocular glass.
He gave her directly to understand that he was even armed against the case of an ocular demonstration of the contrary (a Hereditary Prince) being presented to him.
Well, I think you have pretty good ocular demonstration of it.
But courts of justice, judges, and jury require ocular and demonstrative proof.
I do not say that it would be reasonable to expect direct and ocular demonstration of such a product, any more than it would be reasonable to expect direct and ocular demonstration of an act of special creation.
