School Children's Eyes

SCHOOL CHILDREN'S EYES

THE cure and prevention of imperfect sight in school children is very
simple.

A Snellen Test Card should be placed in the class room where all
children can see it from their seats. They should read the card at
least once daily with each eye separately, covering the other eye with
the palms of the hands, in such a way as to avoid pressing on the
eyeball. The time required is less than a minute for both eyes. The
card measures the amount of their vision. They will find from time to
time that their eyesight varies. Some children are very much disturbed
when they cannot see so well on account of the light being dim on a
dark or rainy day and although they usually learn the letters by heart
they do not always remember or see them. It is well to encour. age the
children to commit the letters to memory because it is a great help
for them to see them. When a child can read the Snellen Test Card with
each eye with perfect sight, even although they do know what the
letters are, it has been found by numerous observations that their
eyes are also normal and not nearsighted, farsighted nor do they have
astigmatism. Many children find that when they have difficulty in
reading the writing on. the blackboard that they obtain material help
after glancing at the Snellen Test Card and reading it with perfect
sight.

When the eye is at rest, perfect rest, it always has perfect sight. A
great many teachers and others condemn the method unwisely because
they say that the children learn, and because they know what the
letters are, they recite them without actually seeing them. With my
instrument I have observed many thousands of school children reading
the Snellen Test Card apparently with perfect sight, the test card
that they had committed to memory, and in all cases never did I find
anything wrong with their eyes.

About ten years ago I challenged a Doctor, a member of the Board of
Education, to prove that the children deceive themselves or others by
saying that they see letters when they don't. To me it is very
interesting that the most wicked child in school no matter how he may
lie about other things with great facility and gets by with it, was
never caught lying about his eyesight. I believe that every family
should have a Snellen Test Card in the home and the children
encouraged to practice reading it for a few minutes or longer a number
of times every day. Some children are fond of contests and quite often
a child who can demonstrate that his vision was the best of any pupil
in the class had a feeling of pride and satisfaction which every one
in sporting events can understand.

- August 1922

I wasn't born yet.

Sorry. Rishi Giovanni Gatti (Zetsu), Lena102938, and Otis Brown are
trolls who haunt s.m.v.

Rishi has published, and is trying to sell worthless books.

Otis is pathologically dishonest and actually hurts people.
Following his advice can induce double vision in those
not working closely with an eye doctor.

Lena102938 uses anti-eye doctor rhetoric as a substitute for ANY
actual information. It seems she now has to wear glasses and has
developed a pathological (and ILLOGICAL) resentment toward the
industry that "foisted these glasses upon her."

You'd do well to ignore them and wait for responses from the
caring, compassionate eye doctors who DO also participate in this site.

Is it garbage to preserve the perfect sight of children?
Is it garbage to save them from a lifetime of glasses?
Is it garbage when it has been proven?

What worthier cause could there exist, than the happiness of a child?

Deceptive in what way, unfounded in what way?

Well it is proven but you have to search it:

New York Medical Journal, July 29, 1911, vol. 94, no. 5, pp. 237-238

On Sep 26, 9:09 am, Zetsu <absolutelyinvinci...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Well it is proven but you have to search it:
>
> New York Medical Journal, July 29, 1911, vol. 94, no. 5, pp. 237-238

Something peer-reviewed ... and maybe from this century ... might be
more persuasive.

It was from this century; less than 100 years ago.

The journal was very reputable and if they published bullshit crap,
their reputation would be destroyed. The most pesuasive evidence, now
we come to that, is in the demonstration itself.

Changes, but not always for the better.

Some of 1911 textbooks were crazy. Some of 2020 medical textbooks will
be crazy. Lots of textbooks nowadays are crazy. But a reputable
journal usually isn't crazy, otherwise they wouldn't have reputation.
Reputation is made by proof.