Should the general practitioner study refraction? / by George M. Gould.

  • Gould, George Milbrey, 1848-1922.
Date:
1907
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    [Reprinted from New York State Journal of Medicine, December, 1907.] SHOULD THE GENERAL PRACTI- TIONER STUDY REFRACTION? By GEORGE M. GOULD, M.D., PHILADELPHIA. PA. I HAVE been receiving .so many letters from practitioners and from young men begin- ning medical life, asking advice in refer- ence to taking up the study of ophthalmology, that the answerings have become frequent and onerous. To save repetition and time I purpose to publish the following general reply. My answer to the inquiry of the above caption IS, Yes. It may be you are not adapted to the work; It IS possible that you will add one more absurdly large number of ophthalmic surgeons,” success-hunters, “exag- geration -criers, and refraction decriers—lots of good ideals and motives go wrong, lots of good men go wrong; we can’t help that, and then, perhaps, after all, the ideals and the men were faduTe strong, and deserved rhe reason for the Fes is that of our 8o million people at least one-half need spectacles. At present it is utterly impossible for any but a small fraction of these needy ones to get rio-ht and accurate spectacles. Wrong ones incretse isease, and there are millions of wrong ones AmeAc!.n millions of mericans are suftenng and handicapped by the