Fig. 3 shows a portion of one of the films. The two curves are to be
read from below upwards; but at the bottom is a photograph of the slit
(showing a part of the subject's face) taken when the drum had made
a little over one revolution and had come back to rest. Hence below
the image of the slit, the curve of corneal reflection is doubled.
"Right" and "Left" refer to the subject's right and left sides, so
that the reader looks into the subject's face from in front. In the
picture of the slit, the place on the cornea of the corneal reflection
is shown; and also a minor reflection, which as may be seen traced no
curve, from some other source of light. The fine line that crosses
the slit horizontally is the image of the thread, above mentioned,
which was used in adjusting the head. The time-dots are seen to be
perfectly distinct, so that they could be accurately read with the
help of a jeweller's eyeglass. Fig. 4 shows another part of the same
negative, a portion subsequent to the single eye-curves of Fig. 3,
that is, a continuation vertically upwards of Fig. 3. The rotation
had been from the subject's left to his right, a direction that will
be termed "clockwise" throughout this paper, and it can be seen that
the quick eye-movements are toward the subject's _left_, while the
slow are towards his right: had the photograph been taken _during_ the
rotation, the directions of the quick and slow movements would have
been reversed. Two points may be observed in this figure which the
tables will also bring out,--that the two eyes move together, and that
as the nystagmus subsides the quick eye-movements become less frequent
but endure no longer, or in other words, the slow movements alone
increase in duration. The corneal reflection does not accurately show
the amplitude of the movements; but direct inspection of a subject's
eyes, as the nystagmus dies away, shows that generally (but perhaps
not always) the amplitudes of both quick and slow movements decrease
together. When this is the case, it follows that at the end of the
nystagmus the _rate_ of the slow movements decreases very much faster
than that of the rapid movements.
Readable negatives were obtained from four, out of six subjects. Of
such negatives there are fourteen, ten of which are of eye-movements
after rotation clockwise, and four after rotation anti-clockwise.
This distribution is accidental, for the rotations in each direction
were about equal in number. With the exceptions to be noted later all
the negatives exhibit the same features, so that of the fourteen only
four examples are given in full in the tables; while for the others
merely the averages of the duration of quick and slow eye-movements
respectively are given.
TABLE I
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