The home medical adviser, a popular work on the treatment of disease . Fig. 67. -Focusing of Light Rays in a Normal(Emmetropic) Eye. 694 THE EYE AND EAE This defect in vision is, however, overcome by the act of accom-modation. There is a beautiful transparent, double-convex body, N-~V. -—-b Fig. 68.—Farsighted (Hyperopic) Eye Showing the Focusing of Rays from Near(n) and Far Objects (h) Behind the Retina. about one-third of an inch thick, which looks very much like an ordi-nary glass lens, and is situated in the eye just back of the pupil. Thisis what is known as the crystalline lens, and the
The home medical adviser, a popular work on the treatment of disease . Fig. 67. -Focusing of Light Rays in a Normal(Emmetropic) Eye. 694 THE EYE AND EAE This defect in vision is, however, overcome by the act of accom-modation. There is a beautiful transparent, double-convex body, N-~V. -—-b Fig. 68.—Farsighted (Hyperopic) Eye Showing the Focusing of Rays from Near(n) and Far Objects (h) Behind the Retina. about one-third of an inch thick, which looks very much like an ordi-nary glass lens, and is situated in the eye just back of the pupil. Thisis what is known as the crystalline lens, and the rays of light are bent CORNEA
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