The Eyes and Nervous Breakdown.
Dr George M. Gould says that there are very many thousands of patients systematically treated for functional dbeasee of tihe body that are due to diseases of the eye?. In no class of cases is there such great reason to look after the eyes as in the class of hysterics and neurasthenics which 'by a morbid philology we allow to be called "nervous." It is said that I>r Spivak has advanced the theory that hyperohlorhydia and oilier functional gastric troubles are the principal affections relieved by the rest cure. To this ho \voiud add- that nothing is more certain in his mind than that such functional gastric derangements arc frequently the direct result of eye strain. It ifl positively.
1 errminAl negligence'to ignore eye strain^iq any case requiring the rest-cure treatment*
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Otago Witness, Issue 2840, 19 August 1908, Page 80
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136The Eyes and Nervous Breakdown. Otago Witness, Issue 2840, 19 August 1908, Page 80
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