The Treatment of Night-Blindness
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The readers of this Gazette ma}7 remember that attention was called in June to the extract made by Major F. P. Maynard, I.M.S., in our Current Literature Columns (June, p. 234) on the treatment of cases of night-blindness by ingestion of liver. The case in favour of the liver treatment seemed so clear that I determined to try it on the first opportunity, and the following cases are here published in order to call attention to this simple means of treating an unpleasant and sometimes serious complaint, which is certainly common in India.
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