Eyesight, in middle life and old age, wixh a few hints for its care and preservation
✍ Scribed by L.Webster Fox
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1892
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 813 KB
- Volume
- 133
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0016-0032
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✦ Synopsis
Little more than a year ago I had the honor of appearing before themembers of the Franklin Institute and their friends, to lecture on a subject of great importance to the growing child and youth.
The widespread interest which this lecture created not only in this country but abroad, its republication in scientific and abstracts from it by medical journals, has ted me to think that that lecture has not been without its good results.
In that lecture I dealt with the care of vision during infancy and led up to adult life. Having considered these two periods and called attention to whatever may prove either injurious or beneficial to the eye, I now take up the thread of my discourse, and continue it up to old age.
If the eye of man has escaped the vicissitudes of youth, we find it at its best at about twenty years of age. Let the boy be brought up strong in mind and with a clear intellect, so that when he enters his twenty-first year he will have the physique to carry him. through the life work which lies before him.
In this day of telegraphy, shorthand and specialism, man has much labor both mentally and physically to perform, and we must always remember that 'tis through the eye that the greater part of this labor is accomplished.
It is bound to excite astonishment at the wonderful laborperforming functions of an eye when we think of what can be done. The expenditure of eyesight means also the necessity of recuperation of the functions of the eye. If these functions are blunted by some toxic drug, the vision must necessarily become weakened and in some instances destroyed.