WeRead Powered by ReaderPub
The Hunterian lectures on colour-vision and colour-blindness cover

The Hunterian lectures on colour-vision and colour-blindness

Chapter 1: THE HUNTERIAN LECTURES ON COLOUR-VISION AND COLOUR-BLINDNESS
Open in WeRead

Explore more books like this:

About This Book

These lectures present a physiological account of human colour vision and its disorders, beginning with retinal anatomy and the role of visual purple in rods and cones to convert light into neural impulses. The author outlines a retino-cerebral framework in which photochemical changes produce impulses whose character varies with wavelength, and argues that deficiencies in the colour-perceiving apparatus produce forms of colour-blindness ranging from dichromacy to reduced trichromacy. The text surveys entoptic phenomena, visual acuity and the evolution of the colour sense, then offers practical guidance for detecting colour-vision defects, describing test principles and instruments such as lantern and plate tests.

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Hunterian lectures on colour-vision and colour-blindness

This ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this ebook or online at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook.

Title: The Hunterian lectures on colour-vision and colour-blindness

Author: F. W. Edridge-Green

Release date: March 4, 2025 [eBook #75519]

Language: English

Original publication: London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd, 1911

Credits: Thiers Halliwell, deaurider and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HUNTERIAN LECTURES ON COLOUR-VISION AND COLOUR-BLINDNESS ***
THE HUNTERIAN LECTURES
ON
COLOUR-VISION AND COLOUR-BLINDNESS

THE HUNTERIAN LECTURES ON COLOUR-VISION AND
COLOUR-BLINDNESS

Delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons of England
on February 1st and 3rd, 1911
BY
PROFESSOR F. W. EDRIDGE-GREEN
M.D.Durh., F.R.C.S.Eng.
BEIT MEDICAL RESEARCH FELLOW
KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRÜBNER & Co., Ltd.
43 GERRARD STREET, LONDON, W.
1911