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 examinee may pick out a certain number of colours correctly, and
then stop, saying that there are no more exactly like the test colour.
This may embarrass the examiner; he should, however, examine any
candidate who has omitted any colours as carefully as if mistakes had
been made. He should ask the candidate to match one of the omitted
colours.
The examiner will soon find out from experience those colours which are
named and matched wrongly by colour-blind persons; he should ask the
examinee to name some of these colours.
Any candidate should be rejected who calls an orange or red, green
or brown; black, red or vice versa; or green, either purple, rose,
red, grey, brown, or violet. Similar mistakes in matching necessitate
objection. A candidate who puts purple, rose, or blue with violet, or
yellow-brown with orange is most probably dangerously colour-blind
and should be very carefully examined. There are cases which pass the
Holmgren test with ease that fail in the most conclusive manner with my
Classification Test. They put green with orange, brown and black with
red, and grey with blue-green. This is due to a different selection
both of test colours and confusion colours. Orange is by far the most
important test colour, and its confusion with green by the dichromics
is very conclusive. The three other test colours, violet, red, and
blue-green, represent both ends of the spectrum and the neutral point
in dichromic cases, and practically these colours are those with which
most mistakes are made. This test can only be regarded as supplementary
to the Lantern Test.
2. _The Pocket Test._--This consists of nineteen cards, on nine of
which are 112 single threads of wool, and 14 pieces of twisted silk,
similar to those in the Classification Test. These are numbered
consecutively, with the exception of the first thread of the first four
cards, and the last thread of the next four cards. The end threads of
the first four cards, I to IV, form the tests; they are Orange, Violet,
Red, and Blue-green. There are also cards on which red, orange, green,
blue, violet and purple, and grey, respectively are to be found. There
are also two special cards marked “Without Red” and two special cards
marked “Without Green.” (See Fig. 6.)
[Illustration: Fig. 6.]
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