The art of preserving the sight unimpaired to an extreme old age : and of re-establishing and strenthening it when it is become weak ... To which are added observations on the inconveinces ... of common spectacles / By an experienced ocultist [G.J. Beer].

  • Beer, Georg Josef, 1763-1821
Date:
1824
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Credit: The art of preserving the sight unimpaired to an extreme old age : and of re-establishing and strenthening it when it is become weak ... To which are added observations on the inconveinces ... of common spectacles / By an experienced ocultist [G.J. Beer]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Those who are in perfect health, and whose daily occupations do not lay them under the necessity of forcing the sight, do not readily perceive the harm which arises from this inconsiderate habit; but with all those who are obliged, more or less, to force the visual organ, the bad con- sequences are soon perceptible. We often see, indeed, people who, during their whole existence, are troubled with inflamed and running eyes; and it is not going too far to say, that the primary cause of these evils has been, in numberless instances, the pernicious custom of rubbing the eyes on first awaking.. On this part of the subject, then, I come to the second rule, which is, that if we are endispensably prompted to rub the eyes on first awaking, it ought not to be done rudely, but merely by passing a wetted Jinger over the eye-lids, if we find it diff- cult to open them. Many delicate females will, no doubt, smile at this; but the smile would be one BO