An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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THOMSON, William

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On astigmatism as a cause for persistent headache and other nervous symptoms.

Med. News (Philad.), 27, 81-88, 1879.

Thomson was a pioneer in the study of refraction. He was much interested in color-blindness and modified Holmgren’s wool-skein test. Himself affected with hypermetropia, he made important investigations on this condition, and (above) on astigmatism as a cause of headache.



Subjects: GENETICS / HEREDITY › HEREDITARY / CONGENITAL DISEASES OR DISORDERS › Color-Blindness, NEUROLOGY › Chronic Pain › Headache, OPHTHALMOLOGY › Diseases of the Eye, OPHTHALMOLOGY › Physiology of Vision, Optometry, PAIN / Pain Management