Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1925-11-05
OUR EYES


Last week we tried to give you
what we believe to be the CHEZ
cause of optical reflective errors,
i that these true errors are formed
while the eye is in its plastic state
and that after the tough schlerotic
coating becomes firm there is little
change except when certain patho-
logical conditions force a change
We are told, and observations cause
us to believe that almost whole
family may inherit near the same
error. Of the eye that parent may
have. Do we believe that they arg
born with this particular shape of
eye ball or do they Inherit a partic-
ular physical weakness that caused
these eyes to be abnormally plastic
and naturally take this certain kind
of error or shape.
When we say that we never saw
a near sighted child at the age of six
years old, we mean that we believe
this error is acquired after the age
that children's eyes have become
firm. This change from farsight to
near sight is debated very much and
many different possible causes Civ
en-. We believe that ninety percent at
least of near sight is caused by mug
Gle cramp alone. Why muscles cramD
more in some eyes than in others, we
4 believe is always either because they
really had more error and thus
fn
tighter to see, thus cramping firm
er cramp, or else there is physical
weakness that causes the cramp to
be firmer and more obstinate in
some eyes than in others This may
be an inherited physical condition or
1T may be any cause that throws poi
son through the system, such as may
come from abscessed teeth, diseased
tonsils, exophthalmic goitre, al
Lsinuses becoming little disease pock-
cts, kidneys, and many others.
The fact that by far the greater
number of people first start to
change to near sight at the age they
change from child to young man
hood or !womanhood, (from ten to
fourteen) may be extremely signifi-
cant as to a cause for the most stub
born and unyielding kind of muscle
cramp. We have found some of the
most stubborn cases at this age i'm
eyes that are not at all overtaxed
at school work. We have kept few
OF these under a strong Jogging for
months without results, even
through vacation season when mus
Gle cramp should relax easily.
Just because muscles firmly cramp
and reverse the real. true refractive :
error, especially severe in the early
teens, do you want me to discon-
tinue my long habit in practice and
not try to save eyes from life of
invalid condition that leaves them
with a paralyzed, conveyance for
the near work as they get older:
Convergence should not grow weak
er with age.
We do not give people Jogging
glasses for muscle cramp until we
positively know it exists When
with our instruments we can relax
cramped muscle to certain posi-
tion. in an hour, then we give glasses
to hold the muscles in this new re-
taxed position found. These glasses
will dim vision until the muscles are
held in this new position long
enough to become accustomed to it.
When the patient won't try then the
eyes will go back and lay lazy be-
hind Jogging glasses Indefinitely.
We have NO an0Incv For thoco foil
ures. We only wish they had staid
away at first. Our ads are about as
much to keep this kind away. as to
induce desirables to come. IT,.
G. F.uSTEBBINS, Optomctrist