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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

CUMMING, William (1812 – 1886)

1812 – 1886

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1846 CE

#5861

On a luminous appearance of the human eye, and its application to the detection of disease of the retina and posterior part of the eye.

CUMMING, William (1812 – 1886)

While a student at the London Hospital, Cumming, by shading the eye of a fellow student from the light, was able to look directly into it and obtain both the retinal reflex and the white light from the entrance of the…