Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1908-01-23

pie. One will be dull mentally
another excitable; another have
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., such as ieal
ousy, fear, etc.; another indiges-
ton; others headaches, neuralgia.
rheumatism, constipation, menstru-
al troubles fits, and 1 might enum
crate all other so-called chronic anu
nervous ills, because the inco-ordi-
nation, ocular and systemic, caused
by eye strain primarily, soon in.
wolves the whole apparatus, and
when each falls just little short of
its full duty the combination is dis
astrous.
The idea extant among the laity
that eye troubles are as distinct
from other ills as ones hat and
shoes is the fruit of pure Ignorance
on the part of the physician and
oculist Tt is the mission of neu-
ologists to correct this false opinion
and it is one Of the easiest feats in
the world if they go at it system.
atically.
First-It is not hard to force
an admission that the eye is part
of the human anatomy. g.
Second-Even they will admit
it is nourished by the same circu-
latory system that supplies the rest
of the body.
Third-They will admit that the
eyes have muscles with which to
perform various functions.
Fourth-Pin them down and
they will confess the probability
operates other members also con-
that the same nervous system that
meets with the eyes.
Fifth-They will concede that
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there is a great sympathetic nerv-
GUS system that works quickly that
if an eye observes a threatening
motion the whole body will dodge.
Sixth-Then isit not possibly
equally true that if the eyes are
mis-shapen so that they demand
more than their share of the daily
nerve supply, such demand, il sup
piled, would weaken the reserve
supply in the brain or overwork
the producing machinery, or both 2
Seventh-If it does that is it
not likely to involve any or all 9th
er functions2
Eighth-Is it not natural that
rgans with similar muscles and
nerves would be more likely to suf-
fer first
Ninth--If so, the effort Of the
sphincter nerves of the ciliary mus
Giles Of the eyes would most quickly
cause sympathetic contractions
among the organs of intermittent
or periodical action, wouldn It
they?
Tenth-Then constipation, dys-
menorrhea, etc., might be produc-
ed by eye defects.
Eleventh-The nerve strain
through such eyes might even in
terfere with circulation Of the blood
decrease the blood-making process
and raise havoc generally, for all
you know, might it not?
Twelfth--Did you ever know or
hear of an oculist who attempted to
treat dyspepsia, epilepsy and other
nervous arrangements through the
eyes
Thirteenth-Do you know that
overwork in the culiary department
not only affects other organs, but
cuts off some of the functions of
the eyes, such as regulating the
flow of tears from the gland at the
upper, outer corner of the orbit,
and when the flood comes the ocul-
list thinks the nasal duct is closed
and he goes to boring there, an inch
from the true seat of trouble. II
he knew how to fit glasses to re-
move all eye strain he would not
need to bore there.
Fourteenth-Do you know that
the body lives on the food it eats,
the air it breathes, and the water it
drinks, and that they comprise the
necessary chemicals, if one only
knows how to give them. And you
should know that not one Of the
drug colleges teaches such truths
or never did.
Fifteenth-Are you disposed to
regain your health, if so you should