Iron County Record | 1954-05-06 | Page 14 | Vision

VISION DR. A. F. RICH, member, American Optometric Assn. Contact lenses are invisible lenses which fit over the eyeball, under the lid. The idea was discovered over 50 years ago, in Europe, but modern optometric methods of prescribing, fitting, and making contact lenses have increased in-creased their value enormously. Contact lenses correct all ordinary defects of focus, such as nearsightedness, farsightedness far-sightedness and astigmitism, but they are especially wonderful won-derful for cases where the vision is such that regular spectacles spec-tacles do not help . . . for instance, Keratoconus, or conical cornea, a condition where the cornea (front layer of the eye), bulkes forward in a cone-like fashion, producing distorted dis-torted and indistinct vision. A keratoconus patient with 10 vision can often be corrected with contact lenses to practically 100 vision. Contact lenses are also widely used for patients following cataract operation. The benefits bene-fits obtained from contact lenses in post-operative cataract cases are far beyond what can be secured with the usual heavy cataract lens. Because contact lenses are invisible, they have literally liter-ally opened up new lives for people to whom a spectacle is so cumbersome or obvious that it prevents them from following fol-lowing their chosen or desired careers. Aanother wonderful aid to subnormal vision is Telescopic Tele-scopic Spectacles for the near-blind. When vision is so impaired im-paired that even contact lenses will not help, these spectacles, spec-tacles, which actually resemble small telescopes, magnify what little remaining vision the patient has up to a point where he is restored to society and able to make his way around without constant care and attendance. Sometimes with the aid of these marvelous spectacles, a person who would otherwise be quite blind is able to return to his work and enjoy life again. Next week, something about visual problems in school children.