Seeing The Vessels Of The Retina

Seeing the Vessels of the Retina


                                               

     Have you ever seen a doctor look into a patient's eye with an instrument

called an "ophthalmoscope"?  The instrument lights up the inside of the eye and

magnifies the vessels of the retina in the rear of the eye.


     This gives the doctor an idea about how healthy you are as he looks at

all the vessels in the back of your eye.


HYPOTHESIS


       I wanted to know if a person could see the blood vessels in the back of

their own eye without using the instrument that the doctor uses in the eye exam.


     I am really interested in eyes because I have an uncle who got in a car

accident and now he is blind.   I hope someday doctors can help all those who

are blind to be able to see.


     I guessed that a person could not see the blood vessels in the back of

their own eyes.


EXPERIMENT


     My experiment was not about the tiny blood vessels that you can easily

see on the surface of the eye.  It's to do with the larger vessels


     All I had to do was take a person into a dark room with my flashlight.

I had them cover their left eye and look down at the floor with their righ
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