Structure and Function of the Retina 68)
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A Humorous Poster by Media MICE, based loosely on the full text of Br Foreign Med Chir Rev. 1868; 42(84): 329–358.*
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By looking beyond this drudgery of anatomical detail … we have equal reason to congratulate ourselves on the great progress made toward a satisfactory settlement of the anatomical basis on which the future physiology of vision may rest.
It will be at once obvious that by far the largest portion of the subject is referable to the general physiology of the brain and nerve-system, which does not further concern us here.
Amidst an embarrass des richesses [embarrassment of riches/confusing abundance] arising from the research works of so many independent observers, a clear insight into our present position is to be obtained. Meanwhile discoveries multiply, and the reader, whose point of view is that of a past period of fact and opinion, and who is dependent on such chance literature as may fall in his way, finds himself in the midst of a past period of fact and opinion. Standing super antique vias [standing upon old ways] he is more disposed to remain laudatory tempers acti [as one who praises the past times] than to join in any forward movement.
Introduction It cannot be expected that the medical practitioner already overtasked by the demands of a many-sided science should follow very closely the laborious advance of retinal anatomy.
We propose, therefore, in the present article, to attempt a brief summary of the results hitherto achieved, in the hope of supplying thereby a want which may be felt by many of our readers.
*No authors listed. Structure and Function of the Retina. Br Foreign Med Chir Rev. 1868;42(84):329-358.
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Conclusion The excitation of the retinal nerves by whatever means effected, results in the sensation of light. The excitation of the retina is therefore neither the perception itself, nor is it always necessary to this perception. We must conclude our summary of the retinal structure, which is, from want of space, incomplete in many details.