Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1926-01-28
HIGHEST AUTHORITY
EXCEPT MORGAN COUNTY


/ The following are extracts taken
from lecture by dean of ophthal-
mology in u medical college. Only
oculists' methods were mentioned,
because he only teaches oculists,
1t applies to all who practice optics
the way he criticises. The Profes-
sional Press Co. of Chicago printed
the entire lecture of seven pages in
Optometric Weekly, Dec. Gath issue.
We give you these extracts to show
you that he teaches the same method
of Jogging vision for relaxing muscle
cramps that we have specialized on
for over twenty years. His state
ment, that when all eyes with er-
rors are fully fitted in this way, ser
ious eye diseases will disappear" is
standard teaching.
Extract No. L. Every practition-
er should know how to measure the
amount of nerve energy used by nor
NAL eyes and compare it with the
vastly greater amount used by mod
crate or even small amount of far
sight. A farsight of only one diop
ter is doing days work at 13
inches, will use ND three and three
eighths times more nerve energy
than the normal eyes in doing the
same work. When facts like these
are properly known and appreciated,
! xxa oh Incc n hnt1f fro II,
in it's constantly reiterated associa
tion with near work"
No. 2 ''lt is most astonishing
thing, that the great body of ocu-
lists the country over, know so little
about fundamental optics and the
effect of spastic ciliary action in con-
Fcealing all or part of hyperopia and
counterfeiting myopia for hyperop-
ia and emmetropia and in exagger-
ating a vastly increased myopia." <
Nor is anything very much to be
expected as long as great majority
of medical men and their postgrad-
uate teachers in eye work continue
to place all reliance in their cy-
cloplegics OF remain of the opinion
that there is nothing much in re-
! fraction Leading oculists
have repeatedly told me that they
correct only the manifest hyperopia
and make it point to send their pa
| tients away pleased from the start
with the vision the glasses give
them. One man told me that you
must send people away pleased with
their keen vision SO they will send
their friends in as patients"
''The man who corrects only the cas-
lily manifest hyperopia is doing
| something that the veriest optical
child can do as well as he, and he
never fits pair of glasses in a case
that is really worth while from the
true archaeological point of
view"
Over four of the seven pages of
this lecture was on muscle cramp
and fogging glasses as the treat
ment. Another OF Americas great
est optical teachers, Thomas G. At
kinson, gives much space to muscle
cramp and the Jogging treatment, in
his great optical encyclopedia
James j. Lewis, author of Lewis
Optical Dictionary and noted teach
er of optics, says that spasm of &C
commodation often is found so Sc
we're that it may require even year
with Jogging glasses, to fully relax.
Hartridge, the greatest English oc-
ulist surgeon, in his text book
states, saw a young man who had
worn diopters near sight glasses
for several years, though his eyes
were found emmetropic (normaD
when spasm was relaxed" DR.. Saw
age, in his text book, describes
segmental cramp of his own eyes
that covered up two diopters of as
tigmatism for several years. A. j.
Cross, a teacher of optics, Columbia
University, and inventor of Dynamic
Skiascopy, gives us whole text
book on muscle spasm and goes far
ther than any other l know of, in
Jogging glasses as the only correct
treatment.
We have studied the text books of
all OF the ABOVE teachers and 9TH
ers. We have over $500 in equip
ment for diagnosing pathological
conditions Of the eyes that do not
have any part in measuring refrac-
tive errors. We have specialized
over twenty years ON muscle cramps.
Some tell you that we don't know
cramp from paralysis caused by
pathological conditions. Half of
our optical study has been on these
points. We have tests that prove
these points positive in most cases.
Those We are not positive we always
send to their family doctor for far
ther examination, but l seldom get
a report but my practice often gets
chill.
G. f. STEBBINS.