Spectacle secrets / [George Cox].

  • Cox, George
Date:
[1844]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Spectacle secrets / [George Cox]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Reviewers5 Opinions of this Work. “The information which this little book contains is really very good and very applicable to the instruction both of the short¬ sighted, who never reflect before they buy, and of the very long¬ sighted, who, from excess of cunning in the search of great bargains, are, like our friend Moses in the Vicar of Wakefield, open to very gross impositions in the matter of spectacles and their very chagrin cases. Those who are not opticians or oculists will do well to read the book before they commit themselves in the purchase of glasses either from itinerant or stationary quacks. But this is not all: though a simple monograph of the frauds of one trade, the book may be generalized into “ a manual of the whole art of puffing,” and an exposure of the silly credulity of the public in all its branches. Mr. Cox also discloses some of the machinery of news- paper puffing in a way which almost tempts us to claim it as “ our thunder,” it is so much in unison with our published opinions on the subject.” Athen&um. “ In this well-written work Mr. Cox has given a popular de¬ scription of the eye, and the adaptation of spectacles to correct constitutional defects or organic disease: by attention to a few simple rules which he lays down, any one may effectually fortify himself against the artful representations of dishonest dealers in spectacles “ made to sell.” The public is indebted to Mr. Cox for having exposed the tricks of the insidious marauders in several towns in which they were practising their impositions, and his tract contains some correspondence between him and several emi¬ nent surgeons, from which it appears that they had been repre¬ sented as vouching for pretended improvements in spectacles, of which they either knew nothing at all, or with regard to which they themselves had been deceived by the fraudulent pretenders.” Christian Advocate.
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