When the ptosis got very bad he would hold his eyelid up with one hand while he wrote.
"Round the Red Lamp Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life"
Arthur Conan Doyle
His eyes are placed wide apart, but this effect is lost through ptosis, a species of paralysis of the eyelids, which gives the eyes a half closed appearance, and is responsible for the sleepy look in his face.
"The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt"
Oliver Remey Henry Cochems Wheeler Bloodgood
ptosis and lateral squint, with a fixed and dilated pupil, indicates pressure on the oculo-motor nerve of the same side.
"Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition."
Alexander Miles Alexis Thomson