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Show KeadInu in tuf. Cars. A distinguished distin-guished oculist j Rays, in reference to the habit of reading in the cars, the coa-.stant coa-.stant motion and oscillations of the car render it impossible to hold the book in one position its distance from the eye is constantly varying, and no matter mat-ter how slight this vaviilioo may be, it is instantly compensated lor by the eye, 1 1ms keeping the organ constantly employed accommodating itself to distance. This becomes fatiguing the eyes have a sort of weary, heavy feeling, feel-ing, and, if the reading is persisted in, soon become bloodshot and painful. We have often observed young misses, intently engaged in the perusal of some romance, while upon a rapidly moving railway train, who have only been able to finish their story with perceptible discomfort. We have noticed them rubbing their eyes, shifting their positions, posi-tions, and holding their book at various distances from tho eye, making the greatest effort to see with eyes that have already been fatigued beyond endurance. en-durance. Such practices lead to serious seri-ous injury to tho eyes, and it is not unfrequently the case that the oculist is called upon to prescribe for a patient who has paralysis of accommodation of the eyes, produced by reading in a railway rail-way car. Ex. |