Thoughts on the present state of the practice in disorders of the eye and ear : To which is added, an address to the inhabitants of Great Britain, particularly to those residing in the ... metropolis ... To which ... are annexed, singular cases, authentic and remarkable cures, lately performed in London, in the diseases of those organs / [James Graham].

  • Graham, James, 1745-1794
Date:
1775
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Credit: Thoughts on the present state of the practice in disorders of the eye and ear : To which is added, an address to the inhabitants of Great Britain, particularly to those residing in the ... metropolis ... To which ... are annexed, singular cases, authentic and remarkable cures, lately performed in London, in the diseases of those organs / [James Graham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THOUGHTS, Sc. Qui vifum vita?n dat. Cic. THE infinitely wife Author of nature, hath afligned to the eye and to the ear, the mod ufeful and mod important offices of life : the ftru&ure of thofe delicately tender organs is fo exquifitely minute, the mechanil'm and properties of their various parts fo admirably curious, that they may be (tiled with propriety, the miracles of nature ! The great variety of dangers and difeafes, manifeft and occult, to which the precious fenfes of the fight and hearing are expofed, the narrow capacity of the hu¬ man mind, the little attention that hitherto has been paid to the improve¬ ment of this noble (cience, and fo few properly qualified have engaged in its practice, that to ftudy it in any degree fuitable to its importance, is full bufinels for even an Antedeluvian life ! The royal Pfitlmift, when with reverence he enquired into the ftrudture and ufes of the pai*ts of the human body in general—and confidered the nature, &c. of the heavenly luminaries, exclaimed with aftoniffiment.-. <( fearfully and wonderfully am I made-in wifdom haft thou made “ them all !’* How much more noble the contemplation of thofe mafter- pieces of the fyftem the eye and the ear ! and of thofe fublimely elevating lubje<fts neceftarily connected with them— namely light and found ! fubjedls inexhauftable—capable of furniffiing new arguments of praife and admira¬ tion in every future ftate of exiftence ! Indeed, the more accurately we fearch into the ftru<fture of the eye and ear, and into the nature and pro¬ perties of light and of found, the ftronger marks of divine wifdom are dis¬ covered—attaining at the fame time, the grand end of all literary purfuits —the elevation of the mind ; and that too accompanied with the moffc becoming and mod acceptable of all its difpofitions, namely, humility r here fcience and admiration, aftoniffiment and pleaffire, fweetly uniting, mult occupy and expand the mind, whilft the fweet incenfe of humility and love afcends pure and acceptable to the eternal fountain of light—to the throne of the Grea r Artist!!! The iuellimable bleffiiig, and great advantages, which attend a perfetf: enjoyment of the fight and hearing, are obvious to all; but the deplora¬ ble and truly pitiable condition of the blind and deaf, is attended vVith fuch folitary difcomfort; fach gloomy ideas, with fuclj dread, anxiety, and B con*