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Article RULES FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE SIGHT. ← Page 2 of 3 →
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Rules For The Preservation Of The Sight.
of darkness into the blaze of day . How dangerous the looking upon bright luminous objects is to the sight , is evident from its effects in those countries which are covered tlie greater part of the year with snow , where blindness is exceedingly frequent , and where the traveller is obliged to cover his eyes with crape , to prevent the dangerous and often sudden effects of too much li ght ; even the untutored savage tries to avoid the dangerbframing a little wooden case
, y for his eyes , with only two narrow slits . A momentary gaze at the sun will for a time unfit the eyes for vision , and render them insensible to impressions of a milder nature . The following cases , from a small tract on the "Fabric of the Eye , " are so app & jable to the present article , as to want no apology for their insertion * here ; thoughif any were necessarythe use they
, , will probably be of to those whose complaints arise from the same or similar causes , would , we presume , be more than sufficient ; " A lady from the country coming to reside in St . James ' s-square , was afflicted with a pain in her eyes , and a decay of sight . She could not look upon the stones when the sun shone upon them , without great pain . This , which she thought was one of the
symptoms of her disorder was the real cause of it .- Pier eyes , which had been accustomed to the verdure of the country , and the green of the pasture-grounds before her house , could not bear the violent and unnatural glare of light reflected from the stones ; she was advised to place a number of small orange-trees in the windows , so that their tops might hide the pavement , and be in a line with the grass . She recovered by this simple change iu the light , without the assistance of any medicine , though her eyes were before on the verge of little less than blindness . "
" A gentleman of the law had his lodgings in Pall Mall , on tire north side ; his front windows were exposed to the full noon sun , while the back room , having no opening but into a small close yard , surrounded with high walls , was very dark : he wrote in the back room , and used to come from that into the front room to breakfast , & c—His sight now grew weak , and he had a constant pain in the balls of his eyes ; he tried visual lassesand spoke with oculists ,
g , equally in vain . Being soon convinced , that the coming suddenly out of his dusky study into the full blaze of sun-shine , and that very often in the day , had been the real cause of his disorder , he took new lodgings , by which , and forbearing to write by candle-lig ht , he was very soon cured . " Blindness , or at least miserable weaknesses of sight , are often
brought on by these unsuspected causes . Those who have weak eyes should therefore be particularly attentive to such circumstances , since prevention is easy , but the cure may be difficult , and sometimes impracticable . When the eye sensibly flattens , all delay is dangerous ; - and the ' longer those who feel the want of assistance defer the use of spectacles , the more they will increase the failure of the eye ; there are too many who procrastinate the use of them , till at last they are
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Rules For The Preservation Of The Sight.
of darkness into the blaze of day . How dangerous the looking upon bright luminous objects is to the sight , is evident from its effects in those countries which are covered tlie greater part of the year with snow , where blindness is exceedingly frequent , and where the traveller is obliged to cover his eyes with crape , to prevent the dangerous and often sudden effects of too much li ght ; even the untutored savage tries to avoid the dangerbframing a little wooden case
, y for his eyes , with only two narrow slits . A momentary gaze at the sun will for a time unfit the eyes for vision , and render them insensible to impressions of a milder nature . The following cases , from a small tract on the "Fabric of the Eye , " are so app & jable to the present article , as to want no apology for their insertion * here ; thoughif any were necessarythe use they
, , will probably be of to those whose complaints arise from the same or similar causes , would , we presume , be more than sufficient ; " A lady from the country coming to reside in St . James ' s-square , was afflicted with a pain in her eyes , and a decay of sight . She could not look upon the stones when the sun shone upon them , without great pain . This , which she thought was one of the
symptoms of her disorder was the real cause of it .- Pier eyes , which had been accustomed to the verdure of the country , and the green of the pasture-grounds before her house , could not bear the violent and unnatural glare of light reflected from the stones ; she was advised to place a number of small orange-trees in the windows , so that their tops might hide the pavement , and be in a line with the grass . She recovered by this simple change iu the light , without the assistance of any medicine , though her eyes were before on the verge of little less than blindness . "
" A gentleman of the law had his lodgings in Pall Mall , on tire north side ; his front windows were exposed to the full noon sun , while the back room , having no opening but into a small close yard , surrounded with high walls , was very dark : he wrote in the back room , and used to come from that into the front room to breakfast , & c—His sight now grew weak , and he had a constant pain in the balls of his eyes ; he tried visual lassesand spoke with oculists ,
g , equally in vain . Being soon convinced , that the coming suddenly out of his dusky study into the full blaze of sun-shine , and that very often in the day , had been the real cause of his disorder , he took new lodgings , by which , and forbearing to write by candle-lig ht , he was very soon cured . " Blindness , or at least miserable weaknesses of sight , are often
brought on by these unsuspected causes . Those who have weak eyes should therefore be particularly attentive to such circumstances , since prevention is easy , but the cure may be difficult , and sometimes impracticable . When the eye sensibly flattens , all delay is dangerous ; - and the ' longer those who feel the want of assistance defer the use of spectacles , the more they will increase the failure of the eye ; there are too many who procrastinate the use of them , till at last they are