Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-06-24

found DR.. Webster in his office, on
Madison avenue, intending eyes" as II
were. His subject was a twelve-year-
old girl, whose glasses needed adjust
ing. She had bad one eye burnt for
liberation with a red-hot iron by DR..
Agnew when she was two years old,
and had worn glasses ever since.
"My sister has just had her eyes test
ed" she said, "and the baby will have
to wear them as soon as she gets OLD
enough. My father wears glasses, and
my mother Is nearly blind. | have three
aunts who have worn glasses ever since
thew were little girls"
"So It appears that poor eyesight is
hereditary" asked, turning to the
doctor, and RETAINING from any refer
ence to the CROOKED man who had q
crooked Wife" etc.
"UndoubtedlY. We always look up
the family history when We have 'erl'
Gus case"
500 YOU not think that much harm
results from the use OF improper
glasses?"
~ think 1t is very Injurious TO wear
glasses unsuited to the eyes. II Is also
very harmful TO neglect TO wear glasses
when the eyes require them.
"There is hardly a known ailment
which cannot be said In some cases to
have It's origin in defective eyeslght.
Headache, pains in the back, nausea,
vertigo, are all symptoms OF eye
troubles.
as (. possible 10 have an affection OF
tn, eyes without knowins it?"
eyes. for the reason that it manifests
itself in so many different ways.
Usually, however, your family phy-
stefan begins 10 suspect something,
when he finds that his remedies for
your ailments have no effect II you
have periodic headaches. sick head
aches and the like, your physician VIII
probably send you TO an oculist;' he
concluded.
An important patient (which Is far
from being a real paradox, by the way,
insisted upon an interview just then,
and I was ushered into tho office OF Dr.
PAYNE. who, DR.. Webster graciouslY re-
marked. was much wiser man than
he"
DR.. Payne showed me the model OF
an eye. The perfect eye, as you see.
is round-that is, 1t has . diameter OF
about TWENTY-FIVE millimeters 10 every
direction. The outer coat, which Is
CON monty called the white OF the eye.
istbe sclerotic coat. The next layer Is
the cboroid, where the blood vessels
lie: and the inner and most important
AVER ia the retina upon which Is the
point Of Vision.
"You see this yellow spot az the
center OF the back OF the eye? That Il
where the rays Of light are focused Ia
the perfect eye, and that Is the part oil
the eye that sees.
"lf the eye is imperfect and the rays
Of light do not focus at this point, ther
an artificial lens must be used.
81 say an artificial lens, because
there is a natural lens in the eye itself.
This is inside q transparent capsule
inst behind the pupil, aud IL is nuct
better than an artificial lens, because II
"a adjustable, according 10 the distanc'
OF the object.
There is a little muscle, called tn
ciliary muscle, or the muscle OF accom-
mediation. which regulates the shape o
the lens, and II is upon this muscle ina
All the strain falls when the eye Is eI
erted in reading on cars and fsrryooats
The muscle is continually CONTRACTING
and relaxing, TO accommodate the len
n the minute differences Of distance o
the paper from the eye, as the car JOLT
along