Jaeger chart on different Jaeger cards currently in use is very high. Therefore, test results with different Jaeger cards are not comparable. More commonly, distance vision acuity is tested using the Snellen chart, familiarly seen wall mounted with a large letter at the top. Jaeger chart The Jaeger chart is an eye chart used in testing near vision acuity. It is a card on which paragraphs of text are printed, with the text sizes increasing from 0.37mm to 2.5mm. This card is to be held by a patient at a fixed distance from the eye dependent on the J size being read.
The Doctor Is Sick undergoing a battery of diagnostic tests, Mrs Spindrift amuses herself with some disreputable new friends at nearby pubs. Sometimes, to Edwin's distress, she sends these friends to keep her husband company during visiting hours, rather than come herself. Most of the novel is a dream sequence: while he is anaesthetised for brain surgery, Edwin's anxiety over his wife and the company she keeps turns into a fantasy in which Edwin leaves the hospital and encounters his wife's friends, with whom he has various adventures. Shortly before he wrote "The Doctor Is Sick" Burgess suffered an obscure mental breakdown that ended