Among three hundred Indians examined, I found when I got to the Creeks, a tribe which has been semi-civilized for many years, myopia to be the prevailing visual defect.
Up to the present there is a growing tendency toward myopia or short sightedness, i.
Myopia or short-sightedness among the Germans is growing at a tremendous rate.
His terrible myopia shut him out from every calling except that of a writer.
I see that I was at Myopia again on the 23rd, when Charlie MacDonald and I again beat Stephenson and Leeds.
The last is the constructor of the Myopia course, and for its construction deserves no little credit.
From what I have seen of American courses I put the National Golf Links first and this Myopia second, a very good second.
Immediately on arrival we started out for the Myopia Club, where Macdonald and I beat T.
As an oculist, he maintains that Hearn must have suffered from congenital eyestrain, brought on by pronounced myopia from his earliest childhood, long before the accident at Ushaw.
Gould had written several pamphlets on the subject of myopia and defective sight, these he sent to Hearn, and Hearn had responded, touching, as usual, on every sort of philosophical and literary subject.
Those fluctuations on either side of the average which we call myopia and hypermetropia, occur in the same manner, and are due to the same causes, as those which operate in producing degeneration in the eyes of cave-dwelling animals.
In the struggle for existence, a blind man would certainly disappear before those endowed with sight, but myopia does not prevent any one from gaining a living.
Much to his chagrin, his myopia excluded him from the Infantry which he tried to enter in the spring of 1915, and he had to put up with a Commission as a subaltern in the Army Service Corps.
He has often seen a column of cavalry, with sabres drawn, ride across water which would bring half the Myopia Hunt to a stand-still on an ordinary run after hounds.
Six months after the operation, on correction of the myopia and application of red glass to one eye, crossed double images occur close together, which become homonymous by means of a prism of 3 deg.
As, however, in spite of this, myopiais present in about 60 per cent.
On correction of the myopia (if one eye is provided with a red glass) prism 12 deg.
Myopia of the better eye was present in 7 cases (in 3 myopia of 1 D.
Habits cling more closely in adults, therefore that form of convergent squint in particular, which usually develops quickly in myopia of average degree, causes annoying diplopia to last for a longer time.
On May 8th, single vision, also with correction of the myopia and with red glass.
Slight degrees of one-sided myopia reconcile themselves with the continuance of a normal binocular act of vision.
In myopia of high degree patients almost always read with relative divergence, and these myopes do just what we must advise them to do, they avoid strain of the accommodation and convergence of the visual axes and thus keep well.
Far from being useless or detrimental to the human race, it is an instinct evolved by nature as a defence of the race against parental selfishness and criminal myopia regarding future generations.
Thus myopia constitutes a positive adaptation to the defective conditions of work, enabling the pupil to work more rapidly.
The dignity of Myopiaexudes from the timbers of its long, quaint club-house.
It might be easier in some circumstances for a man to become the President of the United States than to become a member of the Myopia Hunt Club.
It is, at the very least, as difficult to become a member of Myopia as of the Royal and Ancient.
I hope you realise that Myopia is not an ordinary golf club; I did so within a minute of my arrival there.
Traditions and old dignity are strongly attached to it, and this Myopia is such a club for high feeling and exclusiveness as would do credit to any institution we have at home, golf or otherwise.
The disadvantage of the first born in respect of myopia is based on a greater hereditary taint and on no other factor.
So painting becomes the son's chief delight in spite of his exaggerated myopia or perhaps just on account of it.
Furthermore his lack of resoluteness, decisiveness and courage is not, as he mentions, the result of his myopia but of his neurosis.
Does this prove that the myopia is rather due to heredity?
His methods are not above criticism, and too much importance should not be attached to his results, which show that in 58% of the cases heredity can be credited with the myopia of the patient.
James Alexander Wilson, assistant surgeon of the Opthalmic Institute, Glasgow, published an analysis of 1,500 cases of myopia in the British Medical Journal, p.
This has actually been done,[6] and none of the conditions enumerated has been found to be closely related to myopia in school children.
When nearsightedness is discovered early, and glasses are given that make distant vision normal, and all needless near work forbidden, the myopia may be held in check, and any considerable increase prevented.
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