The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-02-01
VISIONARY DELUSIONS.
The Curious Effects Produced BY Wearing
Glasses for the First Time.
OBJECTS SEEN DISTORTED AND AwRy,
DIR. seymour Explains why People
With Perfect sight Can Not
Wear Glnsscs.

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We arc often asked the reason for tn
dizzy feeling that one experiences whci
wearing glasses Tor The first time and VIII,
1t Is that buildings and other large OBJ
! jccts seem. distorted and appear 10 bl
falling. In answer TO this question a com
rctcnt optician viii toll you that Il is iu,
to tho fact that before person begins e
| wear glasses there is usually some diff.
| ference in thc'two eyes and ono becomcs
accustomed TO measuring distance and
looking at all things in general. with the
better eye o. thc tSo. Consequently after
putting on giusscs aud having the slght
IN the poorer eye restored TO the same
| degree Of perfection that the other eye
ehJoye. II produces new scale of calcula-
ton and gives enc tho sensatlon that a
person having perfect sight would cxpcrl-
cnco were he to put on glasses belonging
10 some one with defective sight. Objects
would either look smaller or larger than
II was natural for the perfect cyu to see
them. This fact also explains why so
many people believe TINT their stomach
troubles cause headache aud nuke them
dizzy, etc. Most every one knows that a
person having perfect sight can not wear
glasses. us II IL very apt to cause nausea
and headache. Is Ii not reasonable there.
fore, TO. suppose that persons having de-
fectiyc sight should experience the same
trouble when they overtax or strain their
eyes little more than usual. All opticians
know this to be fact and you can readily
reason this out for yourself.
Yes, / ofton have people whom ! ha.e
fitted with glasses come back In a short
time complaining to me that largo OBJ.
1ects do not look straight and 1t Is very
hard to convince them that their glasses
have simply corrected that which had al
ways been imperfect before.
We arc often asked why elderly people
can not do with one pair of glasses for
seeing at distance, as well as for read
ing. This is due to the fact that those who
need glasses for seeing at a long distance
use them to correct some natural de-
fciency in sight and this class OF people
are not confined to any age; but those
who may possess perfect sight until they
have passed the age of 40 or As will sooner
or later find 1t necessary to resort to
glasses to assist them TO see objects at Il
close point OF vision. This failing OF sight
due to advancing age is perfectly natural
and comes to every one. Those who in
early life have found glasses necessity
do not avoid the same trouble that comes
to their more fortunate neighbors and
they must have an extra pair of glasses
fer reading us their long distance glasses
only correct some hereditary or natural
defect. and their reading glasses must be
combination of lenses TO correct the
failure OF sight due TO advancing years
and also the defect that troubled them In
earlier life. IL is really impossible for a
person who has reached the age of So
and needs glasses to improve his distant
vision, to secure that which will answer
both purposes in a single lens without
having them especially made for this pur-
pose. Dr.. Seymour will give free consulta.
ton all this week.