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G.M. Gould: "The Discovery of Astigmatism and Eyestrain" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28) |
 | | The recognition of the pernicious influence of eye-strain upon the digestive and assimilative system, in the production of functional gastic and intestinal diseases, of chorea, of hysteria, of epilepsy, etc. This has been brought about by the advocacy of other specialists of Philadelphia or by their pupils located elsewhere. |
| | The repression of unprofessional methods, e.g., the operative manias of the tenotomists; the attempted diagnosis of ametropia by machinery, the ophthalmoscope, ophthalmometer, etc. The uselessness and inaccuracy of diagnoses made without cycloplegia; the medical barbarism of the refracting opticians*), etc. These things bring discredit upon the true science of ophthalmology. |
| | They also know that such diagnoses and much cures cannot be made by the methods in vogue in Europe, and that the great clinical value of refraction consists precisely in preventing those inflammatory and operative diseases of the eyes which make up the daily practice of the vast majority of the oculists of the world. |
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