The Hunterian lectures on colour-vision and colour-blindnessEdridge-Green, F. W. (Frederick William)
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The Hunterian lectures on colour-vision and colour-blindness
Edridge-Green, F. W. (Frederick William)
Color blindness
The examiner may be dissatisfied with the colour of the blue; let us,
therefore, compare an examination of a normal-sighted person with that
of an ordinary dichromic. The normal-sighted person will name every
one of the colours with ease and certainty, with perhaps the exception
of the blue, with which he is in some doubt. Here is the result of an
examination of an ordinary dichromic: he called the yellow, green; the
green, red; the signal green, no colour; the blue, blue; the purple,
green; red A, no colour or light; red B, green. It will be noticed that
the only colour that he has correctly named is the blue. We can try
him again and again, and though he will mistake all the other colours
he will always name the blue correctly. The examiner will have learnt
from this several important facts. He will see that the colour-blind
are really guided by their sensations of colour, and that it is not
simply a matter of guessing. The more an examiner has practical
experience of colour-blindness, the more will he recognise the fact
that the colour-blind are guided by their sensations of colour. He
will notice that the dichromic has readily recognised the blue which
was scarcely apparent to him (the examiner), and therefore cannot have
overlooked as a matter of carelessness colours which are much more
apparent to the normal-sighted. The blue is a valuable colour for other
reasons, for though it is not a colour on which I reject candidates,
anyone miscalling it must be very carefully examined before he is
passed. The trichromic generally call this blue, green. If we wish to
obtain a purer blue, we can do so by combining the blue or the purple
with the signal green.
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