Lectures on diseases of the eye / by Charles Bell Taylor.

  • Bell Taylor
Date:
1888
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    age—the very period that the school board have selected for then- paternal ministrations,—and if the eyes of a child between these ages begin to give way, there is no rational treatment but enforced absence from school; and I don't think myself that such compulsory holiday ought to be regretted by any one, for children's brains do not grow in proportion to the stuff they cram into them; and, after all, true education is something that a man seeks for himself, and finds for himself, and does not usually begin until long after school-days are over. Short-sighted persons who must complete their curricu- lum of study for the Church, the Bar, the Civil Service, or other professions, should wear weak concave glasses for reading, so as to be able to hold print about twelve inches from the eye. The light should be good, and come from the back or side, and they should not read or work when lying down, leaning forward, or travelling in a railway carriage. Seekest thou great things for thyself?—Seek them not. To no class does this sage warning apply with greater force and justice than to the myope. Of two brothers, Germans, myopes, and students of medicine, one took heed of this warning, accepted a mediocre degree, and preserved his sight by an outdoor life and country practice. The other heeded not; but worked on, and at last achieved distinction, only to find himself, shortly after middle life, unable to walk alone or recognize his fellows. Another condition that you will find very much benefitted by glasses, occurs in patients of forty or upwards, who occasionally suffer from marginal blepharitis, the formation of styes, and a feeling of general worry about the eyes owing to reflex irritation from neglect of these aids to vision. Still another is that of chronic invalids, specially women suffering from uterine complaints, painful menstruation.
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