Refraction / by J.G. Parsons.

  • Parsons, J.G.
Date:
1907
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Credit: Refraction / by J.G. Parsons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AKKOciation By J. G. Parsons, M. D. BROOKINGS, S. D. All modern medical practitioners are aware of the fact that refractive errors have an influence on the general health. They have had frequent opportunities to observe the results which fol- low the wearing of an accurate correction. They note a relief from persistent headaches, migraine, and other nervous disturbances and gastric dis- orders commonly spoken of as “bilious attacks.” Witness the statement of Musser of Philadel- phia : “Who has not seen correction of errors of refraction relieve so-called ‘bilious attacks,’ periodical vomiting, anorexia, indigestion, and other gastric symptoms? The cure of grave organic ocular defects relieves similar gastric con- ditions.” It is apparent, however, to those of us who do eye and ear work exclusively that very few men in the practice of medicine realize the extent to which errors of refraction enter into the causa- tion of extra-ocular disease. Few have looked into the subject far enough to become sufificiently familiar with it to appreciate its importance. One reason for this is the failure on the part of the medical schools, in the past at least, to emphasize this matter sufficiently, and the failure on the part of ophflialmologists to bring it forcibly to the notice of the practitioners in other fields. The duty of the ophthalmologists, in this re- •Read before the South Dakota State Medical Associa- tion, May 29 and 30, 1907.