The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-09-11
WEAK EYES INCREASING.
AN oPTlcIAN IN A HISTORIC BUILD
ING SAYS THEY ARE.

The Causes TO Be Found Largely I'm Our
Modern Sedentary Life-Why School
Children Are Afiicted-The Kind OF
Glasses to Wear.
On the west side of Nassau street, just
south of Fulton street, is an old building,
the second floor of which was formerly
used by Aaron Burr as a law Office after
his return from Europe in 1912. The
floor is now used by an oculist and OPP
tician, who is scientist, philosopher
and merchant combined.
His reception room was formerly
Aaron Burr's consulting room, and it is
somewhat of q coincidence that whereas
it was formerly used for consultation
of the mind, it is now devoted to the
purpose of consultations for the sight.
SIT is not generally known, (" remarked
the oculist-optician to a News reporter,
s'except to, perhaps, few old fashioned
merchants, that this was the office of the
famous Aaron Burr; but to some of the
older members of the bar this place has
q historical interest as well as personal
OAcs Do 1tl do bbCAA CJ CO arc tOhCSAnCbs
81 make no spectacles or eye glasses
for the trade. Every pair of glasses
made here are made after personal ex-
animation of eye, by myself, or upon
the written prescription of recognized
oculist. 1t seems to me that defective
vision was never SO great as now.
CAUSES OF DEFECTIVE VISION.
s'The peculiarities of defective vision
are legion, but the prevailing affection
of the eyes is nearsightedness. This
arises from many causes, chief among
which is the increase among sedentary
occupations. Jewellers, journalists, es-
pecially doctors, analysts, clerks, book
keepers who have to work in dark ware
houses, typewriters, especially women;
milliners, painters upon enamel, and in
fact almost every business that demands
close attention for any length of time,
has its proportion of nearsighted
workers.
s'Not one man in hundred has abso-
lutely perfect vision, and that one man is
usually an illiterate person, whose bust
ness is an out door one Yet even sea
captains, particularly in the German
navy, wear eye glasses.
"Another cause for defective vision is
the present mode of living. We eat too
fast and choose our food at random. The
laborer and the farmer, whose frugal
fare is plain but substantial, are seldom
troubled with bad sights. Severe mental
troubles most surely affect the eyes
where there isalready predisposition to
sight failure.
'sDuring the past five years there has
been noticeable increase of impaired
vision among school children, caused by
three things: First, too much study in
badly lighted school rooms; second, bolt
ing their food instead of masticating it;
third, the undue strain upon the nerve
tissues, which is the result of both. A
good many children of tender years often
require glasses as strong as those worn
by persons of advanced age.
"Others are born with malformation
Of the cornea, or front part OF the eye,
the curvature Of which being unequal,
the rays Of light do not harmonic
Such people see vertical lines clearly, but
the horizontal lines indistinctly, or vice
versa. The only remedy for this sort of
thing is to use cylindrical glasses.
"Again, others are troubled with
weakness in one of the muscles of the
eye, so that the eyes do not move alike.
Hence they may have double visual i'm
pressions and see two objects instead of
one.
sThere is one popularity, however,
ahollt near si0htad Dannla which does