Show Constant Though Unfelt Strain Eye I Is the Cause of Many Afflictions rn THAT ar many persons who suffer A from minor ills such as headaches headaches headaches head head- aches fears and panics dizziness disturbed disturbed dis die sleep train sickness depression depression depres depres- sion slon and fainting fits its owe these to a slight but long continued strain eye was demonstrated in a study of ot cases presented by Dr Harold A. A de des of Brussels before the Medical Society of London recently and reported reported reported re re- re- re ported in the Lancet Women are aro more moro subject to these attacks than men because man learns early in life more surel surely to control his nervous system than woman does The Tho symptoms s generall generally generally gen gen- become manifest between the ages of ot fifteen and twenty-five twenty and the average oculist says the defect Inthe in inthe inthe the eyes is too slight to warrant correction correction correction cor cor- by glasses But Dr des says sas it Is the slight degrees of or error of accommodation tion in the eyes which do tho the harm not the extreme degrees For a person who has the latter soon finds he cannot cannot cannot can can- not see well without glasses while he who has only the former can see perfectly perfectly perfectly per per- well he does not feel the strain but this is producing its results as ag time goes on The human eye says Dr des was made for man in the rovIng roving rov roy ing or agricultural life liCe it itIs Is is not adapted for the restless unceasing movement at t close quarters in a town to Life on a Transvaal farm where ob objects objects ob- ob b- b at a distance of twenty miles are easily seen Js Is the natural life The symptoms differ in different persons but most of them recognize that they are produced by or are are- worse after railway travelling sightseeing sightseeing sight sight- seeing theatres crowds railway stations stations stations sta sta- sta- sta big shops shopping race meetings meet meet- Lags ings ordinary meetings Indoors motoring motoring motor motor- ing jag sometimes games of baseball base and also frequently by hard and prolonged reading They nearly all prefer to walk In side streets streets to main maln streets and if H possible inthe parks instead ot of the streets They complain ol ot smoky rooms hot rooms rooms stuffiness stuffiness stuffiness ness and attribute the results to the th heat and stuffiness and not to the thereal thereal thereal real cause As time goes on the sufferers tend to avoid the occasions that cause them theta trouble and If IC they suffer much are likely to drift into the life lite of a recluse Two of Dr des patients were only rean really well wen when living in the desert of Africa They are always Improved by life Ure In the country One woman said to him I can hunt from 10 to 6 but if I go out to dinner ant and especially If fr I go to a ball ban at night I Iam Iam Iam am ill for days after atter And according to Dr des all an this is duo to very slight defects detects In the eyes In some cases case's cases the orbits are not perfectly aligned in others there is slight myopia short sight in more there is long sight Any of these defects can be remedied by proper glasses and Inmany in inmany inmany many cases if it treated early enough can be cured |