Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1892 — Cure of the Eyes During Early Life. [ARTICLE]

Cure of the Eyes During Early Life.

Dr. L. Webster Fox (Medical and Surgical Reporter) formulates ten rules on the preservation of the vis ion: 1. Do not allow light to fall upon the face of a sleeping Infant. 2. Do not allow babies to gaze at a bright light 3. Do not send children to school before the age of ten. 4. Do not allow children to keep their eyes too long on a near object 5. Do not allow them to study much by artificial light. 6. Do not allow them to use books with small type 7. Do not allow them to read in a railway carriage. 8. Do not allow boys to smoke tobacco, especially cigarettes. 9. Do not necessarily ascribe headaches to Indigestion; the eyes may be the exciting cause. HO. Do not allow the initerant spectacle vender to prescribe glasses.