This not always possible for people to go to a competent I physician for relief. As the method of treating eye defects presented is comparatively new, it may be impossible to find a physician in the neighborhood who understands it, and a person may not be able to afford the expense of a long journey or take the time for treatment away from home. To such persons I wish to say that it is possible for a large number of people to correct defective eyesight without the aid either of a physician or of anyone else. Read the rest of this entry »
The results of these preventive measures were disappointing. Some observers reported a slight decrease in the percentage of myopia in schools in which the prescribed reforms had been made, but on the whole the injurious effects of the educational process were not eliminated to any extent.
Further study of the subject has only added to its difficulty, while at the same time it has tended to relieve the schools of much of the responsibility ‘formerly attributed to them for the production of myopia. As the American Encyclopedia of Ophthalmology points out, “the theory that myopia is due to close work aggravated by town life and badly lighted rooms is gradually giving ground before statistics.” Read the rest of this entry »
No phase of ophthalmology, not even the problem of ac- commodation, has been the subject of so much investigation and discussion as the cause and prevention of myopia. Since hypermetropia was supposed to be due to a congenital deformation of the eyeball, and until fairly recently astigmatism was also supposed to be congenital in most cases, these conditions were not thought to call for any explanation or to admit of any prevention; but myopia appeared to be acquired. It therefore presented a problem of immense practical importance to which many eminent men devoted years of labor. Read the rest of this entry »
