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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

THOMSON, William (1833 – 1907)

1833 – 1907

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1879

#5917

On astigmatism as a cause for persistent headache and other nervous symptoms.

THOMSON, William (1833 – 1907)

Thomson was a pioneer in the study of refraction. He was much interested in color-blindness and modified Holmgren’s wool-skein test. Himself affected with hypermetropia, he made important investigations on this condit…