Show Keeping Up Wk 2 e Science Service Service New Nev Eye Training Needed to Meet Air Travel Growth r i More Perfect Vision Mast Be Developed COLUMBUS OHIO With With air travel becoming increasingly increasingly increasingly important more attention attention attention atten atten- tion will need to be given to training the eyes of the oncoming oncoming oncoming on on- coming generations it appears appears appears ap ap- ap- ap pears from remarks made by Dr C. C E. E Rice consultant to the social security board at atthe atthe the conference here of the National Society for the Prevention Pre Pre- of Blindness A well developed ability to see with both eyes together is essential for normal perception of depth This Dr Rice pointed out is vitally Important for pilots of aircraft Squint is one example of an extreme extreme ex ex- degree of lack of ability to fuse the pictures in the two eyes or to make them see together I som Sometimes this squint or crossing of tho the eyes is due to mechanical conditions conditions con con- coni i which h can only be corrected I by operation but in some cases the i ability to fuse can be developed by I proper training Dr Rice said aid The cause of the condition wl which ch chmay may lead to blindness of at atone one eye eye because it Is not used at all nIl is un un- known Dr Rice suggested that some of the Infectious diseases acquired acquired acquired ac ac- ac- ac early in life may play playa a part partin in causing the condition Cause of Myopia Not Known Nearsightedness or myopia is anOther another another an an- other visual defect about which not much is known as to the cause It Itis Itis Itis is probably due to defect in the development a of the coats of the eye ball and may even have its origin rigin in the up make-up of the germ cell ecU from wl which ch the baby d devel vel- vel Since the cause seems to start operating long before the child is born it is wise vise Dr Rice thinks Jio ilo to encourage the prospective I 1 mother to partake of a wholesome diet fortified with cod liver oil during during dur dur- ing the months before belore the childs child's birth Other dangers that may threaten the baby's eyesight before he is isborn b born rn are various disease germs Most 1 important of these are the germs of syphilis tuberculosis and gonorrhea Treatment of the mother before the baby's birth will vill safeguard safeguard safeguard safe safe- guard the child from blindness due i to 10 syphilitic infection Guarding the infant from danger of infection either from infected milk or r from contact with patients will protect his sight from this particular hazard Not all cases of babies' babies sore eyes dangerous because the c condition n may l lead ad to blindness are due to gonorrheal infection Dr Rice pointed point point- ed d out Other disease germs may get into his eyes during the birth process Dropping silver nitrate into the new new-b new born rn baby's eyes to protect him against this hazard is isnow isnow isnow now a world-wide world procedure |