When Nature Heeds Aid.

Otago Witness, Issue 2805, 18 December 1907, Page 76

When Nature Heeds Aid.

Wonderful as Nature ie in her adaptability, the needs of modern life occasionally tax her powers beyond their resource,!. , An optician illustrated the point by reference to the eyesight. "In perfecting the eye," he said, "Nature oquM not foresee the time, when, cooped up in cities, men would no longer seed the organ for gazing at objects far distant, j but would require it incessantly for focus- i ainjr images near at hand, as in the case j of reading and writing. The result is that an undue strain is thrown upon it in one department— hence eye troubles, with their long train of allied disorders— headache, nervousness, dyspepsia, and so forth. "Such evils- abound in the case of, literary workers, and are best overcome by the use ' of spectacle^, which, by relieving the tension on the eyes, effect great improvement in the health."