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Show VISION (These articles are submitted weekly by your Optometrists of Southern Utah, in cooperation with your local newspaper, In order to better acquaint you with the function and problems of vision). ARE YOU LIVING IN SHADOWLAND? Maybe the shadow begins about 10 inches from your eyes. Everything beyond looks fogged. That's NEARSIGHTEDNESS. NEAR-SIGHTEDNESS. Or the shadowy sphere may immediately surround your head, so that you can't see to read or sew. Outside this fog-sphere say, six feet away and beyond things look clear enough. The name for that one is FARSIGHTEDNESS. FARSIGHT-EDNESS. If objects appear fuzzy and blurry at any distance, near or far, the chances are you have ASTIGMATISM. Or do you see two images of the things you look at, one overlapping the other? Probably your two eyes, which ought to work together, have gone their separate ways giving you a case of DOUBLE VISION. Then there's the possibility and a serious one that you have a diseased condition in your eyes or elsewhere else-where without knowing it. A thorough visual examination examina-tion reveals both eye disease and many bodily ailments Thus it safeguards your general health as well as your eyesight. It's amazing how many people put up with shadowy sight conditions. They wouldn't tolerate a leaky faucet or a balky automobile. But when it comes to vision they go right on squinting and scowling, fretting and frowning One reason for this misplaced tolerance is that people often fail to realize how badly they are seeing. Until their heads begin to ache from eyestrain, their nerves to get Jittery, their digestion to go bad, they manage to "get along," as though nature had decreed poor vision for them and nothing could be done about it. Something can be done, and should be. It's possible to correct 94 out of every 100 cases of visual error Even eve diseases can frequently be cured, or at least held in check If you have been living in shadowland, you have a surprise sur-prise coming. I |