The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-10-18
THINK FOR YOURSELF
OR YOU SUFFER
THE IGNORANT ARE ALWAYS
READY TO RIDlCULE NEW
IDEAS.

Although much has been written
in the past few years in relation TO the
mysterious effects of errors of refrac-
tiun and accommodation OF vision and
the condition known ms muscular in
sufficiency' upon the functions OF the
nervous system and the viscera. the
profession at large is not yet thor
oughly awakened Ia the Importance Of
the detection and correction of such
errors.
Most men know that some persons
can be made dizzy by looking from Il
height or inspecting Il waterfall. they
have doubtless seen people suffer pains
in the head and be made sick at the
stomach BY trying On a pair OF spec
tacles which gave relief To II friend
All physicians doubtless know that a
"squint' in tn" eye Is very often due
Ia some defect in the rcfractiUn of the
eye or Il weakness of its muscles; but
possibly som. of them do not know that
sqnint will disappear at once when
the proper glasses are given To such Il
patient. without recourse to cutting the
muscle Perhaps IL has never occurred
To most of my readers that sight is the
only special sense which we usn con-
stantly. except during the hours of
sleep There is not a moment Of the
day when We are not acquiring visual
/ Impressions Of some kind. Fortunately
for our nervous system, the normal
eye takes pictures of surrounding OBJ
I jects without any muscular effort
/ when the object is more than 20 feet
away: hence during the larger part
/ of each day the normal eye is pas
/ sivc and is practically at rest, al
( though performing its functions.
1 How different Is the condition of the
+ far sighted or "hpermetrupic' eye.
7 however from the normal. For this
/ eye tsince IL is too short in its antero
/ posterior axis all objects have to be
I focused by muscular effort, irrespcc-
/ tive Of their distance from the eye.
I Such an eye is never passive. II has
| no rest while the body is awake. 1t
4 is always straining. more or less In
tensely. to bring properly upon the
retina the image of objects seen.
/ The shallow eyc-thc 'hypcrmet-
/ ropic' condition of the eye. or far
sightedness." ms 1t is called. is a very
common defect, II Is especially fire.
uuent in persons Of tuborcular par
entagc. II is well. therefore. to sus-
/ pect the existence of this defect in
children or adults whose ancestors
/ have died Of Consumption -..-
"Hypermctropia' cannot be corrected
/ too eapay in life. II is unauestionably
one of the most frequent causes of
/ sick headaches" which, rs we all
know. runs in families. II is common
~ encountered also tamong other OPP
/ teal defects) In subjects afflicted with
/ chorea and epilepsy. II Is a congenital
defect. and win never be "outgrown.
as many people think. \ hypermct-
rnpic child. from the days Of baby
hood, suffers Unconscious. perhaps, nf
the facD from variety of symptoms
which indicate the strain" to which
efforts to see distinctly. Its eyes are
likely To become easily suftused when
il plays or looks steadily at near OBJ
iects \ slight cast in the eye is some
+ times developed. IL occasionally secs
double" after 1t learns tn read. II
usually prefers and cxcels In out-of-
door sports, which require only slight
efforts at accommodation of vision. II
finds that study and close application
To books bring an Understandable sense
of WEAKNESS and discomfort; hence
study becomes irksome and play brings
a sense of peculiar relief
DIR, WILLIAM T. DoDD.
Opthalmologist and Neurologist.
/ Savoy hotel Consultation free.