Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-03-05
ERRORS IN OUR e. Is.
WHY THE USE OF sPEc-ACL.:S IS
FAST BECOMING uNlvt RSA!-.

NoSTulNtuUu Oh Vue 1Suub oIk 8uH-
holtz's Discovery OF Rcfr~c i've errors
I'm the Mechanism of the Eye.
Eyeglasses or spectaclcs prOI erly adjust.
Cd afford in many instances pt sitiv relief
from u long list Of nervous dis riders. The
human eye is intimately cor nect1d with
the nerve center Of the brain, owe, which
IS cxcrts a strong sympthct in 'luence.
II there is anything radically wrong with
the delicate mechanism of the srga Of VI
sion, It's effect is soon apparent in the nerv.
Gus system. There may bc 40 signs OF
trouble in the eye itself, 80 for as the I'm.
initiated observer Is able to d. tect but to
the expert ophthalmologist TIP symptoms
arc uncrring and infallible. I lis Is the as
sertion of leading specialists ia dis ,ases Of
the eye, and it has the unquali led ndorse
ment of reputable opticians. N it may be
found the cause for tho fast sllrca,. ing use
Of srcctaclcs in all parts Of the civilized
world where the modern theo ries 4 med
ical practice and physiological conditions
obtain. The almost universal use IT glass
es does not indicate an extension Of i'm
paired vision in the human rae or the ex.
istcnce Of amy new optical troubles; 1t
means simply that experts ap trying by
artificial means to remedy Il e d 4ccts OF
nature.
1t is only within the last TO y ,ars that
the mechanism of the human eye has been
really understood. Previous t : Is %, when
Hclmholtz mastered the detail of he work.
ings Of this important par,' of the body
and astonishet even the medical = rofcssion
with his wonderful discover, i. was the
custom to treat the eye Oh the S; me basis
ms olhcr organs. If u man WIS cl tbtOoted,
the mulformation was read ly apparent,
and The only remedy was in the SO Of the
surgeons knife. So long us 3Otl legs and
feet were truly formed and evenly mated
there was no call for medical o. surgical
aid unless the patient COULD lot:ate some
we'll defined interior trouble. And SO 1t
was with the eyes, If mar W; afflicted
with strabsmus or cataract, !, could be
easily seen and relief afforded Gy the prop.
or operation. Not even the MOST advanced
thinkers had any idcs, that ler might be
o radical muliormutiOn in the ,echanism
of vision of which there was nc outward
evidence Thus It was thss wearing OF
glasses was confined to thcse old people
whose sight was conflrmcdly ba, and to n
comparatively few of young or III ddle aged
who by chance found the us Of spectaclcs
. help. Sufferers from visual defects were
almost as numerous in proro rite to popu'
1ation then as now, but their troubles were
not understood, and conscq. Icn .ly no gen
eral attempt was made to COZ rect them.
Hclmholtz discovered thar it was posi-.
bic for nature to err in reg ula ting man s
vision in much the same WHY is it might
send him into the world mal Tor ned in 9th
er parts of the body. He 1D,l I'd that the
eye is subject to what are ca Ice retroactive
errors which seriously affect tho powers of
accommodation and induce al abnormal
strain, which, if long continued has an In
furious effect upon the ncrvtre system and
finally upon the vision itself. \ he range of
the visual field depends upOI, he form of
theeyc.
II both eyes are perfect II construction
and identically alike, the ,iiston will he
normal, but Helmioltz demonstrated to
the satisfaction of the proft ssj on that ma
ture does not always do its " or truly, and
that many individuals arc afflicted with
misformed visual organs. TO make these
misformcd organs perform In ir work nc
ceptably to the owner require an uncon.
scious forcing or strain Oh q NJ I,Owcr of ac-
oommodation, which results In \ disorderctl
condition. called nsthcnopia. People thus
afflicted will struggle along, ignorant of
the real cause of trouble, until compelled
to consult n physician for r. lei from merry
GUS affections, when they will be sur
prised to learn H.. 1t is ~ ctaclCs, not
medicines, t,:cy reed.
Asthcnopia includes Pains il the cyclide
and in the forehead over tho eyes, in the
top and back of the head alIu in the sides
of the head just back of the ''ycs and is fire.
quently accompanied by extreme nausea
and general debility. When failure to OBJ
tain relief by the use of ord II AIRY remedies
demonstrates the fact that the trouble does
not lie in ordinary causes the careful ply.
stefan will ut once suggest he consultation
Of an &C SPECIALIST. This NJ uully results
in the discovery of rclrnct tive error OF
some kind which Is readi " remcdicd by
the use Of property fitted q Ea~scs, and in a
short time all symptoms of rs thenopia dis
appear. Explanation Of thisiIes in the fact
that the GLASSES restore tic vision to the
normal stage and by doing his stop the
forced strain on the powers If accommo'
dution, and this in turn relic yes the ncrv'
Gus system.
Man is endowed with p1ly q certain
amount of what may bc termed visual en-.
ergy. At the carly agc Of 10 years it Is easy
to note beginning Of the exhaustion OF
this energy; Mt 30 two-1ftlN Of the visual
power Is usually gone, ard ut so years
fully eight.tenths Of the tight energy Ct
the average individual Ia ex hs,lsted. Won
en- and children ase in the IL ain the great
est sufferers from defective vision, becau-e
they are, as . rule, the most careless In The
treatment Of their eyes. Tie use Of gl.ssse
n sbhorrent to them a. indicating the np'
proach Of old age and arc only put GU un'