Colour vision : $b Being the Tyndall Lectures delivered in 1894 at the Royal InstitutionAbney, William de Wiveleslie, Sir
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Colour vision : $b Being the Tyndall Lectures delivered in 1894 at the Royal Institution
Abney, William de Wiveleslie, Sir
Color vision
(i). 165 (U) + 48 (R) + 147 (G) = 84·7 (W) + 275 (B).
(ii). 120 (U) + 240 (Y) = 196 (W) + 164 (B) (corrected)--
With 260 (U) + 100 (Y) he sees blue.
250 (U) + 110 (Y) he sees light-blue.
242 (U) + 118 (Y) he sees no blue.
This last in connection with (ii) shows that his blue perception is
neutralised by the yellow, although the yellow to him was matched with
white.
I have already shown you a chart of the insensitive area of the retina
found in a tobacco-blind case, and it may be advisable that you should
see an example of the curtailment that exists, both for light and
colour, in the field of vision of eyes in which there is progressive
atrophy of the optic nerves. The large black area shows the part of the
field that was encroached upon. The dark spots show small areas which
are also insensitive. The field for colour shown by the inner shaded
area is also encroached upon, and practically the patient was blind in
a great part of his field. His form vision was also very bad, and his
colour perception feeble. The three charts given in these lectures
were brought by Mr. Nettleship, for the information of the Colour
Vision Committee of the Royal Society, and by his permission they are
reproduced here.
[Illustration: FIG. 38.
_Left Eye._ _Right Eye._]
Two other cases I may give in some detail, one in which the sensation
of colour is totally absent in the left eye, the right eye being
normal; and the other in which there is colour blindness of a very rare
character. The first case is that of a lady, whom we will call Miss W.
It appears from the history of this lady that she had a slight stroke
of paralysis which affected her left side, and that she subsequently
found her left eye was deprived of all sensation of colour. It is said
by the specialists who examined her retina that this is a case of
atrophy of the optic nerve. She had very little difficulty in matching
the most brilliant spectrum colours with the white patch of light.
Her curve of luminosity is given in Fig. 39 (see table, page 228). At
19 of the scale, which is well in the blue, she had very little sense
of light, though her extinction curve shows that it extended to some
distance beyond. The eye in which normal vision existed was, during the
examination of the defective eye, bound up with a handkerchief, and
when occasionally she was allowed to use both eyes, her astonishment
was great to see the colours which she had matched with the white. The
curve of luminosity taken with her right eye coincided with my own,
which throughout we have taken as normal. From her extinction curve we
gather that there was a marked diminution of sensitiveness to light
in her left eye compared with that of normal vision. Apparently, in
that eye she only has 1/25 of the normal sensitiveness to light near E
in the green, but her extinction curve takes the same general form as
that of the normal eye. The difference between the sets of ordinates
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