Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-07-15

it's own particular function or show diff
ficulty in it's performance unless some
thing is out of order. The proper thing
to do, according to DR.. Dixon, is not to
give up its use, but to find the trouble,
to correct it if possible, and to restore
the organ to usefulness.
The writer informs us that the eye
varies as much as anything else in the
human body. Each person, he states,
sis born with his own pair of eyes;
sometimes they are correct, oftener not
so. Often they are not alike and cannot
work together properly" Vision is
corrected by the ciliary muscles, which
are made to work; but when they are
overtaxed, they are liable to exhaustion
and this, in turn, gives rise to serious
consequences. 1t is found to be an ac-
tual fact that eye-strain is the principal
factor producing nervous debility, hys-
terra, melancholia, vertigo, nausea, in
somania, nervous dyspepsia, palpatation
of the heart, general nervousness, irrl-
liability, faintness, ;weariness, headache,
constipation, and dozens of other annoy
ing conditions.
Eye-strain, the author maintains, is
permanent waste of nervous energy in
correcting the slight congenital and
permanent errors in the shape of the
eyes. This waste is not felt by strong,
healthy system, but is ready to become
a decided tax whenever the system gets
below par, and it's effects are intensified
immensely by continued close work.
When once the muscles have been
taxed to that point of exhaustion, and
nervous refexes or disturbances set up
elsewhere, then any effort to force the
eyes to continue their work may cause
actual physical damage requiring long
time to repair 1t is like the break
down that comes from overwork in any
other way-repair is slow and some
times never perfect.
Now that the cause of eye-strain IS
known, we have the choice of two
methods of RELIEVE may remove the
conditions that make it burden, or we
may correct, but not remove, the cause.
Theoretically, the doctor insists, glas-
ses should be worn constantly since the
errors are fixed, but if the eyes can
once learn how to rest, they are usually
able to bear their overwork fair share
of the time without bad results; they
must have rest, and at frequent inter-
walls.
The dislike to wearing classes is so
great and universal, the reason for
wearing them so little understood, and
the temptation to the oculist to avoid
forcing such an unpleasant remedy on
his patients is so strong, that they have
been worn generally for close work
only. or for temporary relief, and as
little as possible. But if glasses are
needed at all they are really more ben
eicial when worn for resting or distant
vision than for close work; but that is
exactly opposite, the author tells US, to
what people wish to do and find agree
able. Too many people decide to follow
their own inclination, but are sure to
find later that the cost of so doing is
much greater than they had expected.
Glasses do not do bit of the work
the eyes ought to do; they simply cor
rect imperfections. In conclusion DIR.
Dixon states that, contrary to the gen
eral idea, sharp, clear sight, so highly
priced and the boast of many, is not the
proof or the test Of good eye; for
many who have the keenest vision can
not use their eyes much or with any
CONTEXT. Easy vision, he maintains,
vision that can be used and enjoyed
freely, without thought or fatigue, is
the proper test of good eye. -Scien-
tifc American.