Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1906 — The Art of Refraction. [ARTICLE]

The Art of Refraction.

The art of refraction if of any value whatever, is only so when absolute accurcy in it is attained. This accuracy requires such exceptional skill and training is so dependent upon a rare combination of personal characteristics. Conscientiousness, delicacy, tact, judgment, keenness of observation etc. that it is seldom attained. To make the crudity more striking it has become l the habit of text-book writers of schools of teachers and of students to suppose that this most difficult of all technical work can be learned by anybody withqut application and perhaps in a few weeks on the contrary no one ever learned it except by years of the | most intense devotion. Indeed many men can and never do learn it. This fact accounts in part for much of the pessimism which exists as to the pathologic intluence of eye strain in producing systemic disease. The patient is not cured because his disease has not been diagnosed aud he has had no scientific treatment. In all the world there is no school which will train a student to do the perfect refrac tion work which conditions the relief of the sufferings of one tenth or one twentieth of civilized ]>eople.— "New York Medical Journal, (Published at mutest of pr, Chaw, Vick, eye specialist.)