BLINKING AND ITS CURE
Opticians and oculists will, pe. haps, find some help in the follow ing paragraph, which bears on' a habit quite common among persons of a sedentary occupation :— "If you find yourself blinking your eyes rapidly without any cause, stop it at once, or it will grow into an incurable habit that will -make our eyesight fail comparatively early in life.
"Natural blinking is necessary to clear, and moisten the eye. The average number of natural blinks is about twenty per minute. But a nervous blinker will get in something like a couple of hundred in a minute in bad cases. The result of this is a big development of the eyelid muscles. It, .besides, involves counter irritation, which acts on the optic nerve, and renders the sight daily more weak and irritable.
"Once contract this habit, and you will find you cannot bear a strong light or read small type, and the eyes get worse and worse. The cure consists in keeping the eyes shut for at least ten minutes every hour, and bathing the lids in warm water." .
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 23 August 1911, Page 3
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