DEFECTIVE SIGHT AND SIGHT EDUCATION

First sight

But despite the portrait and interrogation by doctors in London, Jesty never received credit for his pioneering work, with all the credit and financial rewards going to Jenner with his many friends in the medical establishment in London who spent considerable time and money refining the technique. Jenner never accepted that he had been preempted over vaccination by Jesty. However, the Jestys fr...

Sight and Life

Timing sight and sound

It has been proposed that there is a perceptual compensation for the difference between the speeds of light and sound. We examined this possibility using a range of auditory-visual tasks, in which performance depends on the relative timing of auditory and visual information, and manipulated viewing distance to test for perceptual compensation. We explored auditory-visual integration, cross moda...

Sight Testing

By p. Davidson, iyi^. frice Vs. 6d. This little volume on sight testing lias now reached its fifth edition and would therefore appear popular with the practitioner. The author lays great stress on the importance of the general practitioner including, in his daily work, that of refraction and the prescription of glasses to his patients direct. The author undertakes in his book to teach a simple ...

Sight restoration

Cases of sight onset after extended periods of congenital blindness provide windows into visual development and brain plasticity. Such cases are extremely rare in the developed world. Here, we make the argument that in meeting a public health challenge in the developing world, that of providing treatment to curably blind children, we have the opportunity to have a beneficial impact on science a...