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PEOPLE WITH EYE TROUBLES. DOCTORS BENEFIT. SYDNEY, Oct. 22. Tu an address on “Observations from Consulting Room and Workshop/’ Mr L. Cavalier, of Newcastle, told the convention of the Institute of Optometrists of New South Wales to-day a few hard things about doctors who prescribe for people with eye troubles.
“Instead of tolling a man he is too old for the work lie is doing,” said Mr Cavalier, “a doctor takes his guinea, and another to-morrow; gives him advice, and does nothing for him.”
The patients themselves, however, wc-re sometimes to blame, lie said. Often they refused to believe there was nothing wrong with them, or that they could be cured without spending a lot of money.
Mr Cavalier mentioned the ease of a stevedore at Newcastle who rode a bicvclo to his work. His eyes became inflamed and Mr Cavalier told him to bathe them with boracic acid and rest them for a few days, and they would bo all right. The stevedore was not satisfied. - He saw a doctor, who told him he had conjunctivitis, and it cost him 30 guineas to cure the inflammation.
“Don’t show people how clever you are,” he told the congress. “Just give them the goods. Cure them, i'lfat is the only way.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9850, 31 October 1924, Page 3
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