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THE EYE AND ITS DEFECTS.

DR SPEAR'S ADDRESS,

There was a fairly large audience at tbe Forester' Hall, last nveuing, when Dr U. Spear, M.P.0.0., delivered a leoture on "The Eye aud Its Defects." The address was au interesting ntul instructive one, aud was listened to with attention throughout. The lecturer prefaced his remarks by giving liia experience in oxamina I tious, especially of children's eyes. ; in Wellington a short time ago he examined over two thousand eohool children, u large percentage of whom he found were suffering from defective eyesight, which he attributed to a cause which if attended to could be , overcome. The lecturer said he had dovoted a life-time to the study of the cyo, which is simply a tiuy photographic camera, infinitely more delicate and perfect than the finest instrument in the world. One of the must common causes of failing eye qight, li< said, was ovorstraiu. In many cases this was due to neglect to weir glasses when the eyes call for assistance—which may, in many oases, be affected by sickness or other causes. There are now over a hundred different affections of the eye, and it required tbe utmost skill of the specialist to deal with the trouble. Untold cases might be mentioned of young people, who, finding their sight failing, take to glasses, whereas, if they consulted a medical man, this recourse would not be necessary, as in due course, under ordinary circumstances. Nature would assert Itself. Smoking to excess had a bad effect on the eyesight—cigarettes especially, which the lecturer condemned in no measured terms. The hawker, who travelled through the oountry posing as an optician, should be shunned, as more harm was done to the eyeß by using glasses that were not suitable than most people imagined. An optician, like a doctor of medicine, should be duly aualified, and very great care should be exercised in treating the eyesight. In many cases one eye is stronger than the other, and when this occurs the lenses should be so arranged as to meet the difference—one glass stronger or weaker, as the case might be. In conclusion, the lecturer summod up his most interesting lecture as follows:—First, beadaohes are in many cases due indirectly to disorders of the lefraotive or accommodative apparatus of the eye; secondly, that the brain system is the most prominent system of the eye trouble; and thirdly, that a long and continuous eye trouble leads to insomnia and other nervous disorder?. It is the intention of Dr Spear to visit Masterton at regular intervals. The doctor may be consulted at tbe Olub Hotel to-day.

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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8262, 16 October 1906, Page 6

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THE EYE AND ITS DEFECTS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8262, 16 October 1906, Page 6

THE EYE AND ITS DEFECTS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8262, 16 October 1906, Page 6

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