Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1925-01-29
YOUR EYES

come to the residence OF some inVa-
lid toe weak to come to the office
for eye examination. Our idea OF
this is that such person Is too
weak to stand treatment with glass
es that would do any real good. To
try to draw and straighten to re-
lieve drain on the nervous system
while so weak, would not do. TO
give glasses that just fit the mani
fest errsr, that is, just best vision
glasses that would not cause any
disturbance to learn to wear. would
do little to help.
The majority OF cases, such vision
fit glasses would not do half as much
good as iast to go to the drug store
aaA get an Inexpensive pair of TINT
cd .4asses4 say a SOC pair of smoked
tint. Wear them until you are able
to get out for examination; not
longer. except when in extreme
light. az we think tinted glasses
worn permanently will cause invalid
eyes. and should not be worn by or
binary, healthy folks. Such folks
who have sensitive eyes to light can
usually be found to have lot of
covered up something that needs
digging out. Then if you are too big
a baby to stand the digging, we
would rather not have you as our
patient. IL you will stand 1T. we
have the ego to tell you that we
have had a lot of experience in that
kind of digging; and we also have a
something we call conscience that
keeps us from caring to do it any
other way.
If an optometrist ends up an ex-
by giving people under
middle age best vision glasses that
do not disturb. he las given you no
more thaa anyone could have given
you I'm q FIVE or tea minute fit AMI
try exam.
Any store clerk could learn to do
this In a weeks time with $50
trial set and 20 cent test chart.
There should be no optometry law
TO prevent the store clerk from do
ng this, il optometry is going to
3IY
What do you gain to have an optom-
etrist use a dozen instruments on
gou if his prescription is just the
same that he or the store clerk |
could have found in five minutes?
What is the use of having an optical
aw tbat is supposed TO make optics
| life study profession if the few
uho are permitted TO practice end |
he exa aiRatioa by giving the same |
prescription that the grocery clerk, |
ewelry clerk or ~drug clerk could |
cara 80 give in a week by just buy |
ng a trial set. test card and four I
page pamphlet of instructions? Ii |
his is all we give. then the folks |
should not have TO pay much for Ii |
,ensed service.
We read in almost every daily pa
,er where someone calling himself |
,ptometrist adyertises glasses and |
for $3.50. These glasses
hey sell for that, cost them less
haa oae dollar. Ten cent stores |
eli them for IS cents to 81. We
lOuDI III iAC IitblC FASAoA 1S7b t-A\y |
i've you is worth the difference.
However these glasses are the cor
'ect grade to give TO vision test
You would gain moth
ng 10 get an expensive, perfect pair !
Il glasses to an imperfect vision |
est. Poor glasses are seldom as i'm
perfect and harmful as imperfect
-ision testing.
What is the-use of DR.. Savage
yhom ! mentioned last week put
ing his life study on eyes. II he
hen practices fitting glasses the
anne way his eyes were fit? Or for
his learned oculist to spend his life
tudying optics and trying to be
reat blessing to mankind, If for ev-
ryone of his ability there are sever
i hundred just vision testing ocu-
lists who are no better glass filters
han the old time store clerk? For
t is a dollar against a penny that
hese side liners for lazy office
,ractice would change 500 of DR..
iayage's glasses before they had
,een worn six months if he gave
hem the way he knew to be cor
ect.
After we have worried the eye for
long period with the retinoscope.
Inder all degrees of muscle tension.
measured corneal curvature, used
he ophthalmoscope, taken the
,horis, then duction of each Of the
Iozen extrinsic muscles, we have |
ired each eye muscle until they Will |
ay down and submit to a fogglng |
hat will relax better than under |
Ltropine. We do not give glasses |
stronger than our positive finding by
his method. We know If we can
.elax an eye to 1920 In an hour
seeing through a certain lens. that 1t
IAN be made permanent If the pa
lent tries A hundred such In
Morgan county have come back and
said. "I don't believe these glasses
are right" that they had asked
Prof. Jones and DR.. Brown about
them and they said not to wear
them: that they got glasses to see
better with, not worse, and that they
got glasses to see easy with, not TO