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On Dec 2, 6:45*am, Lelouch Lamperouge <misa...@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> * * * * ——
> * * * * Questions and Answers
> * * * * ——
> * * All readers of this magazine are invited to send questions to the
> editor regarding any difficulties they may experience in using the
> various methods of treatment which it recommends. These will be
> answered as promptly as possible, in the magazine, if space permits,
> otherwise by mail. Kindly enclose a stamped, addressed envelope.
> ——
> * * Q.—(1) Does working by artificial light affect the eyes? I work
> all day by electric light—am a bookkeeper, and suffer a great deal
> from my eyes. I have been fitted with glasses, but cannot wear them. I
> feel that my eyes, instead of getting better from wearing them, get
> weaker. (2) When I go out in the street after working I cannot stand
> the glare of the sun, and must keep my eyes half closed; otherwise I
> suffer a great deal of pain. Is it so because of my eyes being
> accustomed to artificial *light? It is not so on Sundays. (3) Is it
> advisable to wear an eye-shade while working?—S. S.
> * * A.—(1) Working by artificial light should not injure the eyes. If
> it does, it is because you are straining them. If you think of it as
> quieting and beneficial, it may have the opposite effect. You are
> right in thinking that the glasses injure your eyes. (2) The sun hurts
> your eyes when you go out on the street after working because you have
> been straining to see, not because you have been working by artificial
> light. Because you strain less on Sundays the sun does not hurt you.
> (3) It is not advisable to wear an eye-shade while working.
> * * Q.—Can the blindness of squint be cured?—F. C. E.
> * * A.—Yes. It can be cured by the same methods that are employed to
> relieve strain in other cases of imperfect sight.
> * * Q.—Do you get as much benefit from gazing at the sun through a
> window as you would outdoors? I have read that it did no good to take
> a sunbath through glass.—E. C. H.
> * * A.—Yes. The strength of the sunlight is not appreciably modified
> by the glass.
> * * * * ——
> * * * * Snellen Test Cards
> * * * * ——
> * * There should be a Snellen test card in every family and in every
> school classroom. When properly used it always improves the sight even
> when it is already normal. Children or adults with errors of
> refraction, if they have never worn glasses, are cured simply by
> reading every day the smallest letters they can see at a distance of
> ten, fifteen, or twenty feet.
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> Better Eyesight
> A monthly magazine devoted to the prevention and cure of imperfect
> sight without glasses
> Vol. V - August, 1921 - No. 2
> Copyright, 1921, by the Central Fixation Publishing Company
> Editor—W. H. Bates, M.D.
> Publisher—Central Fixation Publishing Co.
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