David James Harries recently got in touch to mention a paper he wrote for The Journal of Dry Eye and Ocular Surface Disease, entitled ‘Pepys’s Eyes: A Modern Answer to an Old Conundrum?’. Here’s the abstract:

Samuel Pepys was forced to abandon his renowned diary because of increasing pain and fear of impending blindness. In addition to having refraction errors, it has been suggested that he may have had ocular surface disease to account for his hitherto unexplained photophobia. This article uses new resources to re-examine Pepys’s symptoms working on the hypothesis that he suffered from dry eye disease. Applying the diagnostic algorithm provided by DEWS II corroborates the hypothesis and provides the basis of a unifying diagnosis of eye strain similar to digital eye strain that would explain all of his symptoms.

It was published on 5 November 2020, in Vol. 3, No. 1 of JDEOSD.

You can download a PDF of the full article from the JDED or directly here.



2 Comments

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Liz  •  Link

A fascinating paper. Thank you.

Sean  •  Link

Thanks for posting a link to a fascinating article.

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