The art of preserving the sight unimpaired to an extreme old age; and of re-establishing and strengthening it when it becomes weak; with instructions how to proceed in accidental cases, which do not require the assistance of professional men, and the mode of treatment proper for the eyes during, and immediately after, the small pox. To which are added observations on the inconveniences and dangers arising from the use of common spectacles etc. etc / By an experienced oculist.

  • Georg Joseph Beer
Date:
1816
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Credit: The art of preserving the sight unimpaired to an extreme old age; and of re-establishing and strengthening it when it becomes weak; with instructions how to proceed in accidental cases, which do not require the assistance of professional men, and the mode of treatment proper for the eyes during, and immediately after, the small pox. To which are added observations on the inconveniences and dangers arising from the use of common spectacles etc. etc / By an experienced oculist. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ad 158 EXERCISING THE EYE reposing our various members, if we wish to impart to them a new vigour, Unhappily, however, without attend- ing to this simple caution, we are teo much in the habit of increasing our weakness of sight, rather than of reviv- ing those-organic powers ; yet still, I trust that my readers will put in prac- tice the following short rules, which ex- perience has taught me, and of which I am convinced they will soon fee] the advantages, The first is, Lhat whoever is a long time employed en labour of a very uniform nature, of whatever kind, or in the contemplation of small objects, even in accowuts and calculations, accompanied by great and semilar exertion of the mind, ought, as much as possible, at proper intervals, to endulee himself in the open air, and to exercise his eyes in the contemplation of distant objcets. To conceive the salutary effects of this simple remedy, it is only necessary that