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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    he acknowledged, that the water used by the poorer inhabitants is of an unwhole- some nature, producing numerous in- stances of elephantiasis, particularly in the legs, which are often swelled to double their natural diameter; whilst the richer and European population are entirely ex- empt from both disorders, which is sup- posed to be attributable to their using wa- ter that is brought upwards of forty miles from the interior. I may also add, that the prodigious number of blind persons to be met with in most cities of Germany, but particu- larly at Vienna, is generally accounted for, by continental physicians, from the use, or rather the abuse, of sour wines, and of strong liquors, rendering the appearance of cataract very frequent amongst the lower classes. In some respects, too, aliments which are merely hard of digestion may be ex- tremely hurtful to the eyes, from their tendency to excite a degree of repletion,