The fabrick of the eye, and the several disorders which injure or destroy the sight. Explained in a clear and useful manner, for the service of those whose eyes are weak or impaired ... : with a plain account of all the disorders of the eyes, and safe and effectual remedies for them ... / [Anon].

  • John Hill
Date:
1758
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Credit: The fabrick of the eye, and the several disorders which injure or destroy the sight. Explained in a clear and useful manner, for the service of those whose eyes are weak or impaired ... : with a plain account of all the disorders of the eyes, and safe and effectual remedies for them ... / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ »8 ] Blindnefs, or at lead miferable weakness of fight, are brought on by thefe unfufpeCted caufes. Thofe efpecially, who have Eyes difpofed to be weak, fhould attend to this, fince the prevention is eafy, but the cure is extreamly difficult; and often utterly im¬ practicable. We fee therefore, that exclufive of natu¬ ral imperfections, and of illnefles, or abfolute difeafes of the Eyes, the fight may be great¬ ly injured or impaired by an injudicious ma¬ nagement of it in the common courfe of life; and upon this thould be founded the follow¬ ing everlading rules for its prefervation. i. Never to fit in abfolute gloom, or in a blaze of light; much lefs to go from one into the other. A houfe fituated north and fouth, is therefore wrong for any who are tender in their fight; and thofe who are fenfible of the lead diforder in it, never fhould live in fuch a fituation. 2. To avoid fmall prints in reading; and all attention to minute objeCts. It is in vain to think of af- fiding the fight with glades: they reprefent the objedts plainer, but they commit a kind of violence upon the Eye, and always hurt weak ones. 3. Never to read in the dufk : and when the Eyes are at all difordered, not by