The commoner diseases of the eye : how to detect and how to treat them . le to read without spectacles, althoughat the same time he sees worse in the distance. Shortsight is almost ahvays an acquired con-dition, due in the majority of instances to ex-cessive demands made upon the eye for nearwork in early childhood. It develops about theeighth vear and either remains at a standstill orgradually increases in amount, constituting pro-gressive myopia. The latter stage is largely de-termined by continued use of the eyes for nearwork, especially with poor illumination. Heredity acts as a predisposi
The commoner diseases of the eye : how to detect and how to treat them . le to read without spectacles, althoughat the same time he sees worse in the distance. Shortsight is almost ahvays an acquired con-dition, due in the majority of instances to ex-cessive demands made upon the eye for nearwork in early childhood. It develops about theeighth vear and either remains at a standstill orgradually increases in amount, constituting pro-gressive myopia. The latter stage is largely de-termined by continued use of the eyes for nearwork, especially with poor illumination. Heredity acts as a predisposing cause, the 7(1 COMMONER DISEASES OF THE EVE children of myopic parents being more prone tomyopia than those whose parents are hyper-metropic. It is especially to be looked for inweak, sickly children, for whom outdoor gameshave few charms, and who arc allowed to abusetluir eyes with much reading, sewing, embroid-ery, music, etc. The progress of shortsight depends upon astill further elongation oi the globe in its antero-posterior diameter owing to stretching of the. ,^m^
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