Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1925-01-22
YOUR EYES

Last week, we gave you a history
of my own eyes in our article on
optics. We gave this because my
eyes were similar in condition of err
ror and manner of treatment to at
least one-half of those needing glass
es. However the same eye errors do
not affect all people alike. For in
stance: The same eye error may
cause one person to die of stomach
disease, another from kidney dis
ease, another from lung disease, etc.,
because the eyes had used UP SO
much nerve energy that these orr
gans gradually became invalid. The
next person may not try to keep
vision normal and thus not suffer
much nerve shock, another may be
able to generate enough nerve ener-
gy to spare the eyes double por-
ton without wrecking him physical
ly. Very likely is it, that ones eyes
may never get red, never pain, never
cause head ache or anything else
that would cause you to suspect
your eyes for being the chief cause
of physical wreck. A lot of vision
testers have told me that muscle
cramp or latent error does not cause
strain or nerve exhaust. Such
theory would say hunch-back could
pick up more potatoes than a
straight person. These same folks
usually claim there is no such thing
ac Iotop+ acti iorn oticu, yMo find mara
or less latent in nearly every case of
real astigmatism. Often it is all
latent or covered up to all tests eX-
cept instruments that measure the
curvature of the cornea. We also
find nearly as much false astigma-
tism as real Both latent and false as
tigmatism is proof that the accom-
modaticn muscles are just as like
ly to tension up more in one direc-
ton than the opposite and become
cramped to that shape, as they are
to cramp evenly tensioned. For a
vision filter to admit these positive
facts would make his method Grim
inal by confession.
DR.. Savage is one of the highest
authorities on the eye. His text
books are standard anywhere. In
one Of his text books (Ophthalmic
Myology) he relates the following
concerning his own eyes. He states
that eighteen years before writing
the book he had an oculist examine
his eyes who found two and half
diopters corneal astigmatism by the
ophthalmometer. But by any other
method he could not be made to
show over one-fourth that amount.
However, at the time of writing the
book (18 years later) he is wearing
the full amount as first given by the
ophthalmometer. 1t required efgn-
teen years for a noted M. d. treated
by his brother M, D. to get his astig- |
matism fully corrected. 1t should |
have been done in thirty days or
less. I have done it a thousand |
time and have failed other times |
just because some "wag" practices |
telling my patients not to take the |
medicine. Is it any wonder DR.. I
Savage changed his life's study from
medicine to optics? We very sell
dom see any attempt being made to
draw out latent astigmatism or to
change false astigmatism to just far
sight, it's true condition.
Eye errors do not cause one-half !
If our head aches and tired feelings
1r even eye pains, but they are the
cause so often that it is foolish not
o suspect them. Often where eyes
ire doing the most damage to the
lervous system there are the fewest,
general symptoms and dozen little
eye examinations find moth
ng to cause SO much trouble. If
-ou are compelled to tension up
our eye muscles real tight to over
ONE a large error to see, they get
Iumb and set to that position more
Lrmly than the eyes with small err
or that do not tension SO tight.
his is why we find lot of folks ,
With large errors wearing weakest
lasses.-G. +. Stebbins, Optom- ]
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