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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    ing of their sight in reading, as well asi encouraged in the contemplation of small! objects, must accustom’ themselves in-: sensibly to examine objects close to their eyes. In fact, we ought rather to ask: why there are so few near-sighted people: amongst the affluent than why there are: so many. In the lower classes, align the pae rents cannot afford to instruct their little: ones elaborately, though they may send] them to school just to keep them out off harm’s way, but permit them, during the early years of infancy, to run about the: fields, or in the open air of the streets, oni which account their eyes are seldom con-: tracted, and seldom being distended, ex-- cept to contemplate the greater features: of Nature, they preserve always the same’ vigor. Qn this principle it is easy to) conceive why we meet so very few near-. sighted people amongst the lower classes,, with the exception of those engaged in: particular manufactures, and scarcely any’ amongst the peasantry: and hence also)