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Description: | [Letter] 1871 Jul 26, St. Mary Church, Torquay [to] Dr [William] Sharpey / Thomas Finch. [9p. on 3 leaves, holograph signed. Writes as "a pupil, assistant and friend" of the late Dr Augustus Waller; suggests a physiological mechanism for erect vision involving referral of the right (outer) half of the retinal image of the right eye to the "Left sensorium" and vice versa; suggests post-mortem on patients with partially obscured vision as a test of the hypothesis. Part of the "Science and Medicine" purchase from Sotheby's via Quaritch in 1977] | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | letter | Temporal: | 1871 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Finch, Thomas | Identifier: | 1992-188/107 | Go to resource |
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