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Defective sight and how to cure it : discard your glasses, learn to see : the necessity of wearing eyeglasses is caused, not by a defect of the eye, but by an improper use of the eye. Correct usage abolishes the eyeglasses, prevents the development of many diseases of the eye and helps healing others. How to achieve good sight

History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Scholz, Alfred Paul, 1878- author.
Series:
History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century.
History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Eye--Diseases.
Eye.
Eye--Care and hygiene.
Eye--Accommodation and refraction.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (237 pages) : illustrations.
Place of Publication:
1929
Summary:
The History of Disabilities program provides access to primary sources written using terminology that was in common use by the medical establishment and general society at the time, and describes diagnoses, methodologies, procedures, and treatments that may no longer be used or were debunked by later research. Users may come across words and expressions describing individuals and groups that they find condescending, upsetting, disconcerting, offensive, and not acceptable today. MiFhGG
Notes:
Supports and supplements Dr. W. H. Bates' book "Perfect sight without glasses." ef. p. 45.
Reproduction of the original from the New York Academy of Medicine.
OCLC:
1393123505

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