The Prevention of Myopia

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Etiological theories are briefly grouped with a more lengthy quotation of that of F. A. Newman, who holds that there is an interference with the nutrition of the internal elastic membrane of the eye due to heredity, prenatal malnutrition, improper foods in infancy and too much close work. Reference is made to the researches of Rosenow which suggest that ocular disease is due to a localization of organisms or their toxins from a foreign focus. Evidence is offered that paranasal sinusitis may be a prominent cause, and favorable comment is made on the benefits of the use of atropin in the eyes of juvenile myopes during the summer season. Read before the Homeopathic Medical Society, State of New York, April 22, 1930.

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