Eyesight, and how to care for it / edited by George Black.

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[1888]
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Credit: Eyesight, and how to care for it / edited by George Black. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    explained the true cause of their troubles, and re- duced its treatment to a rational physical basis, may be judged from the following quotation from Macken- zie, the highest authority of the last generation : In many cases, it is our duty to declare the disease in- curable. If the patient is a young lad, bound ap- prentice to a sedentary trade, and the disease, from its duration and its mode of origin, not likely to yield to treatment, we may advise him to turn shop- keeper, to apply himself to country work, or to go to sea; if a female, occupied constantly in sewing, to engage in household affairs, or any other healthy, active employment. Many a poor man have I told to give up his sedentary trade, and drive a horse and cart; while to those in better circumstances and not far advanced in life, I have recommended emigration, telling them, that though they never could employ their eyes advantageously where much reading or writing was required, they might see sufficiently to follow the pastoral life of an Australian colonist. Now and then a child discovered by chance that he could study his lessons, or read his novel, comfort- ably through his grandmother's spectacles; but his mother snatched them from him as she would a loaded pistol or a cup of poison, and his family physician lectured him solemnly on the terrible risks he was running. The obvious and certain remedy for all these