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Show I OcutllU with Ill-I'lltllif OtMlei. At tho recent gathering of ophthalmologists ophthal-mologists In rnrls, In connection with the international Medical Congress, Con-gress, nn American oculist amused Ulmrelf, remarks (Ho Philadelphia Medical Journal, by observing tho nd-Juitment nd-Juitment ot tho spectacles nnd eyeglasses eye-glasses worn b. iheeo masters ot the science nud art of optics Ono American Ameri-can as present with properly fitted rctnclis; cf the remainder, the few ttho wore glaascs must havo been sened by blaekamltha or ahocmakcri Inttead of opticians. And yet these tclcnilflO men had shoes that were madAifnr ,helr fMlt' tlicr M not wc" their collars over their ears, and their J hata wero lulled to their heads Everywhere Ev-erywhere In Europe the American don-tut don-tut IiT-Iii evidence, and we suspect I thoiei "stomatologiste" without Am- j crlcan dlplomna havo scant pickings. Can any one explain why the Euro-1 pcan o'cullst Is not only Ignorant ot I practical refraction, but positively I scornful ot Itt There Is, probably, not a MlentlflWly prescribed, surely not I a properly adjusted pair ot gtasses In all Europo. One of the greatest English Eng-lish pbytlclane recently aald ho was convinced that headache were nover earned by. eye etraln. Another said: "Wo havo no ocular muscle troubles; how Is It that you Americans have so manyr" The answer wait, that mis-fitted mis-fitted glasses glasses probably gave the proper prismatic correction We bavo been gullr of believing that tho American "opbthalmotrlclaii." In his dealro to be a physician without n dlplomi was Indifferent to tho sclen-tlflo sclen-tlflo adjustment ot glaaiw Wo are incllneoilp hedge and advise him to emtgraleWd PlW medical missionary to our (professional continental con-frcrca. con-frcrca. I Two excellent result wouU follow all expatriation. |