Show I Is Far Sih Sight Far n or N Sight Near si ht Better r t pI T pIT rn SIGHT Alt and sight near which sight which hi IL Cm Is better We We must remember at he lie who has unusually keen teen vision E objects at a great distance can barely c arely r ly thread a needle or read small I KI K- K I ri t without glasses while the pera peron per- per a on n with wilh near vision so acute as toIve torye to rye erve him hOO almost like a microscope ti Ive distant objects as a blurred mass Ghe Medical Record comments on how little is known as to the extent f I ision of the sighted far and still f Iesh ess of the near We have liae eyes in ia order that our vision may coPiC and it Is th thus that we e ere ire re able to judge of the relative dis- dis 10 ances aces of objects and it brings a freater reater field before the retina at one onetime onele time le but the sight of two eyes is noI no I keener n r than that of one Indeed if here Biere be required a greater Intensity a i given n field it is a natural tenI tency ten- ten I ency cy to observe the vision of one oneY Y 3 That is is why most women women close close eye wh when n threading a fino fine needled needle nd d why men In firing a l' l rifle lle at a tarI target tar- tar I get rhU et hut ono one eye I I he Medical Record doubts the I i value of uniform tests for eyesight urging the tests be made in r relation lation to definite occupations For example a al avery very sighted near man would be to totally totally totally to- to tally incapacitated from work werk in tl the e field of transportation yet admirably fitted for such work as engraving A Avery Avery Avery very sighted far man on the other hand who would be utterly useless asa as asa asa a proofreader or a setter gem-setter might be a prize as a field surveyor a forest forest for for- est eat ranger or even a locomotive en en- Many misfits says the Medical Record can Gan be Dr prevented vented by determInIng determining determining deter- deter mining the kind of occupation the individual will be best fitted for In Inthe Inthe Inthe the last analysis it should be the aim aInt to educate the vision one has to gre greatest test powers by calling to aid id all all all' sources of orientation to to educate a and d train visual perception so that ono may perceive more of the objects wf within with hin h- h in the fields of ones one's vision This is jUst what what savages savages savages' do It is probable that the American Indian and the tho Eskimo have no keener eyes than civilized races but but rather a greater ability in Interpreting Ung what what they seer see |