Doubling the reading power in amblyopia by the crossed-cylinder 'reader' / by George M. Gould.

  • Gould, George Milbrey, 1848-1922.
Date:
1907
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Credit: Doubling the reading power in amblyopia by the crossed-cylinder 'reader' / by George M. Gould. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    [Reprinted from nnilRIlNG THE READING POWER IN AM- “ BLTOPIA BY THE CROSSED-CYLINDER “ READER.” BY GEORGE M. GOULD, M. D., of Philadelphia. It is painful and astonishing to learn how JltVihe number of patients with incurable Smness of vision handed down ty = by a medical generation sinfully indifferent ro Se’s most precious thing, the good vision of patients Scientific spectacles were necessa y to preserve the all-important but such spectacles were sneered at as proois 7eLgge?ation and faddism. Eyes ^ere allowed to become strabismic and thu Xlly blind; the retinal sensff^--^ ruined because “astigmatism, too little to correct ” was ignored; ocular disease was permitted because it was not thoug ^ ^ ^ while to prevent it; corneas were clouded with leukomas because keratitis, ^^ijunctm i . blepharitis, etc., were without causes and n to be prevented—and so on, and so on. All this time the great leaders said ametropi and eyestrain caused no ocular or system diseases, and that the only the ametropia was to secure better vision and all this time these leaders did not better vision but worsened it in millions of patients treated, mistreated, and not treated. In a great “civilized” nation thousands of patients today are made to sit while hot steam is blown upon their eyes, first inflamed because of un- corrected ametropia. The ametropia is ig- nored, the hot steam cannot cure. In another less “civilized” country the great little leaders of little great ophthalmologic societies, and