Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-01-11
WEAK EYES INCREASING.
AN OPTlCLAN IN A HISTORIC BUILD
 ING SAYS THEY ARE.

Modern Sedentary Lifs-Why School
 Children Are Amicted-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 law office after
 his return from Europe in 1872. The floor is now used by an oculist and op- tician, wEo is scientist, philosopher and merchant combined
 | His reception room was formerly Aaron Burr's consulting room, and it is somewhat of coincidence that whereas 1t was formerly used for a consultation of the mind, it is now devoted to ths purpose of consultations for the sight.
 ''It is not generally known, remarked 1 the oculist-optician to News reporter,
 "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 a historical interest as well as personal one, so far as their eyes are concerned.
 "l 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. It seems to me that defective vision was never sogreat as now.
 CAUSES OF DEFECTIVE VISION.
 "The peculiarities of defective vision are legion, but the prevailing affection | rf the eyes is nearsightedness. This | arises from many causes, chief among | which is the increase among sedentarJ | occupations. Jewellers, journalists, es. pecialiy 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.
 ''Not one man in hundred has abso- lutely perfect vision, and that one man is usually an illiterate person, whose busi- 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 toe 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 is salreldy predisposition tc sigkt failure.
 During the past five years there has be n noticeable increase of impaired vision among school children, caused by three things: First, too much study ir nSdly 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 ofteu require glasses as strong as those NOTE by persons of advanced age.
 "Others are born with malformatiop of the cornea, or front part Of the eye. the curvature of which being unequal. the rays of hgh: do not harmonize. 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. f
 Again, others are troubled with f weakness in one of the muscles of the I 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.
 'There Is one peculiarity, howevcr, about near sighted people which does O not apply to other visual disorders. Their o sight improves when they get to be about 40 or 42 years of age, and continues to improve for few years afterward. This O however, is only confined d to persons who use glasses of the requi- s site strength. A too strong eye glass is worse than none at all, and while deal n ing with this part of the subject I may s say right here that the general tendency U of nearsighted people is at first to wear q glasses that are too strong for them A Many a persons sight has been ruined in al
 FEW SIMPLE RULES. ID 1.-The knowledge o%a few plain, sim pie rules about eye glasses would save g world of trouble to the uninitiated. AL u ways buy spectacles in preference to eye sl glasses. They are not only more com Y ortable, but their use avoids the often , presence of common frames oel lpon the muscles of the nose. Never ;- year rimless glasses, but use them with rames, the reason being that tho sight If the eyes is not injured by the refrac- ion of the rays of light on the edges. hc Use pebbles in preference to glass, be- cl ause pebbles are ten degrees cooler. 'ever buy cheap glasses until your eyes III ave first been examined, because very S0 nuch depends upon the condition of the ody when person comes in to buy.
 ''It requires from twenty minutes to as of an hour to enable the so culist to properly test a persons eyes ! order to get the right kind of glass to 0i nit him. Dozens of persons come to +o ie overloaded and laboring under some fa egree of excitement. Their eyes are se aturally affected by this condition, and bi ley need to cool off and become con- osed before l can attend to them. The raduation in the number of the glass nder these circumstances will vary -on one-half to a whole number in the rength of the glass. Never buy of eddlers, because they have not the fa- lities to suit you. m 'Affectation is one of the most prolific tn 'urces of defective vision. Young peo- H, e want to wear glasses because they ev ok stylish, when in reality there is all othing the matter with them. In such m; ses l simply tell them so, but when pr ey insist, a piece of clear, common ot rt ass is the best, even though that is un, I@;, lvisable. ."-Naw York News nn
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