"Optic nerve" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... says Collier, laughing. 'Well, now that you mention it, I have noticed that she doesn't seem to displease the optic nerve.' ...
— Heart of the West • O. Henry
... the body is essential to the exercise of the powers of the mind, but they do not prove that the machine is the mind. Without the eye there can be no sensations of vision, and without the brain there could be no recollected visible ideas; but neither the optic nerve nor the brain can be considered as the percipient principle—they are but the instruments of a power which has nothing in common with them. What may be said of the nervous system may be applied to a different part of the frame; stop the motion of the heart, and sensibility and life cease, ...
— Consolations in Travel - or, the Last Days of a Philosopher • Humphrey Davy
... produces a flabby and endogenous condition of the optic nerve, and constant listening at a telephone, always with the same ear, decreases the power of the other ear till it finally just stands around drawing its salary, but actually refusing to hear anything. Carrying an eight-pound cane makes a man lopsided, and ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) • Various
... was temporarily out of commission and her stricken men in the hospital; but by the time the specialists had diagnosed the trouble as amblyopia, from some sudden shock to the optic nerve—followed in cases by complete atrophy, resulting in amaurosis—another ship came into Honolulu in the same predicament. Like the other craft four thousand miles away, her deck force had been stricken suddenly and at night. Still another, a ...
— The Wreck of the Titan - or, Futility • Morgan Robertson |
