The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-07
DR.. SEYMOUR IN HOUSTON.
oMAHA's NOTED spECrAI,sr uv. /.
w NsiT-VRGBD BY FRIENDS
TO REMAIN FOR TAE wiNTEW.
The Post Reporter Taiked w,th M.
About Notwithstanding Facts
Concerning His Particular
Line of Work


Prominent among the gue:ts Of IN,
Capitol" who are spending few DAYS {,
CIT city is DR.. Walter |. Seymour, Omaha ]
Well known optician. When approached b.
he Posts reporter. he very kindly granite,
: Us an Interview, which will doubtless prov,
interesting TO many, even though the,
may not be familiar with his name or til,
remarkable attainments he has acquired II
| his particular speciality
Alter answering our questions regard.
| Ing omaha and the recent exposition helix
there, he consented to talk aboai himse,
and his work.
nave been travelling through the
south Tor the past few weeks and nav,
visited every point of interest in TEXAS
Tbs being my first sojorrn N this Nv
hnt many things that interest me and
us my trlp was IN the nature of a rest
from my profession, ! anticipated remain
ing somewhere In the South for the bal
ance OF the winter
When asked as to the probabilities of
hfs remaining In this city, he said: al have
number OF acQuaintances here in this
city and through letters from my friends
at home, have been very pleasantly enter
tanned aGd feel that could eajoy myself
mere perhaps more than any other placa
| have seen in the State"
VIII you be apt to give the people OF
houston the advantage of your profe :
siopal knowledge or will you lay ASIDE
business entirely?''
That l can not answer positively, but
as my work is always pleasure to me, |
think ! shall combine business with peas
ure if can secure desirable rooms"
The doctor further stated that he felt
satisfied that the people of Houston would
appreciate the special advantages he could
offer them beyond those which they can
secure at home. AS he understands from
pefors who are acquainted with num-
Der OF physicians in this city that there
10 no one here who devote their entire at
tention to the scientific adapting of lenses.
and the treatment of defective eyes by this
means alone, and as this Is a growing cues
ton which requires special instruments
and knowledge to cope with 1t. think
there is field for my work which no resi-
dent specialist would wish to undertake.
Cross eyes Strengthened? Yes, there has
probably been more of interest said on this
subject than any other In our work Ii is
now settled fact that the treatment OF
this particular Seformity with lenses IL
really the only way it should be handled.
and the old practice of using knife is
fast being deprecated by the best informed
mer in this line. In conversation with one
oil the leading oculists in this State he
maze the remark to me. mot mora than
week since that he believed that where
he performed ten operations with knife
five years ago. that nine of the ten could
now be entirely Strengthened with proper
glasses 1t is not lorg ago that stood
practically alone in this matter and IT has
only been by repeated demonstrations that
we have been able to prove our grounds
to the surgeon who is 80 apt to favor an
operation
He makes the statement that apparently
few people who seek his assistance have
eyes that are perfect mates and that III
many cases patients learn from him for
the first time that they have an eye that
is practically useless, and still they might
have known this had they taken the trouble
to have covered each eye in turn and tried
them separately. l often meet people who
have depended wholly upon the sight OF
one eye for years, entirely unconscious Of
the fact until the good one fails them Ex-
periences OF this kind are frequent and
1t seems strange that people do not give 4
httle more serious thought to this, the
most precious Of their senses. ..-,.,,....
Parents should give careful consideration
TO the complaints made to them by their
children in regard to their eyes troubling
them ami many will find. to their surprise,
that their little ones really have but one
eye that is perfect and II this matter is
properly attended to in early life, it means
the saving of the poor eye
Should the doctor remain here for some
weeks. which he thinks 1t quite probable
he VIII do, he has promised The Post some
interesting articles on this subject, as well
as some descriptions OF his visits to the
Rocky mountains, Yellowstone Park and
the mining regions Of the Northwest.