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Identifier: plainhometalkabo00foot (find matches)
Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ers commendatory of its utility have beenreceived to fill every page of this book, and in the place abovereferred to, a few will be given as fair specimens of the many in the hands of the author. Near-sight, or Myopia. The foregoing essay gives little but discouragement to a large class of people who are affected withnear-sight. Since I first introducedthe instrument for restoring far-sight, many years ago, I havebeen called upon by swarms of pre-tending inventors—some greedy—others addle-pated—having intheir hands some device for flat-tening the eye. Of course it isnot logical to say that side pres-sure upon the eye will impartconvexity, while a flat pressureupon the face of the same, willnot result in causing less con-vexity ; but there are two objec-tions to the use of instruments?for flattening the cornea in casesof near-sight. First: near-sightis in nearly all cases congenital.In other words, those so affected,were born with just such eyes,and consequently it is more difia-
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THE APPLICATION OP THE FINGERS FOENEAR-SIGHTEDNESS, CHRONIC SOKE EYES. 423 cult to change nature by attempting to flatten such eyes, than itis to restore to convexity those which were originally right, buthave become flattened by age or bad manipulations. Second: noinstrument can be devised for producing pressure upon the face ofthe eye, so complete as the balls of the fingers. I do not by anymeans deny the utility of pressure upon the face of the eye in casesof near-sight; I only call in question the merit of any mechanicalinstrument for that purpose, while reminding all near-sighted per-sons that they cannot expect as much nor as speedy benefit from thisflattening pressure, as far-sighted people receive from the means Ihave devised for restoring the convexity of the eye. Every onehaving a particle of discrimination can see this; but were I near-sighted my fingers should always be employed, in my leisure mo-ments, by placing the ball of the first finger of my right hand on myright ey

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