Beauty and You
by PATRICIA LINDSAY:
Have Careful Eye Examination
"Properly cared for, the eyes of¡ of
realization or have proved
of being effortless and automatic, requires a conscious.or subcon- scious attention that it never did before.
the middle-aged may be as efficient disappointing. Health itself, instead as they were in youth," claims Dr. Ellice M. Alger, who is Professor of York Opthalmology at the New Post-Graduate Medical School and the winner of the 1938 Leslie Dana Gold Medal, for his life-long work for the prevention of blindness and the conservation of vision. I shall quote from him:
"Most people enter the period of middle life with a feeling of pro- They are found discouragement, increasingly conscious that they can no longer do things as well or as easily as they once did, and the gone joy of accomplishment has out of them. Ambitions have failed
A thorough eye examination usually brings great satisfac- tion and dispels fear of blind- ness. A competent eye physician must make the examination.
and dis-
"But the picture is not by any means as drab as it seems. As a matter of fact, much can be done to mitigate eye discomforts postpone changes and cure eases. Properly cared for, the eyes of the elderly are often more effi- cient and less troublesome they ever were in youth.”
URGES COMPLETE EYE EXAMINATION
than
"One of the great compensations for the onset of what we call old sight is that it results, or should. result, in a complete and careful examination of the eyes, perhaps the first the patient has ever had. There should be a lot more to it than the mere examination for glasses, for the list of diseases that commonly occur in aging eyes is a rather long one. Some of them are rare and come of them very com-
mon.
THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 17, 1939.
MOPSY GLADY'S PARKER
IF A DETERMINED MAN SUC- CEEDS, THEY SAY HE'S PER- SEVERING, IF HE FAILS, THEY CALL HIM DARNED OBSTINATE
GLADYS PARKER
"But a careful routine examina- | only succeed in damaging your eye tion of the eyes by one who is com- sight.
reveals unsuspected A competent eye physician may petent, often conditions, like Bright's disease, not only be able to restore your diabetes, brain tumor, or locomotor | vision to normal but in so doing is com- ataxia, while there is still time to correct some body ailment which "The only person who petent to make this kind of an ex-do something about them-before is now robbing you of beauty and amination is the yey physician. He sight has been irretrievably damag- making you very unhappy. has been trained to know and treated or the possibility of recovery diseases whether they involve the gone forever.”
I quote Dr. Alger at such length eyes alone or the body behind the eyes. His work overlaps on many because many women who write me other specialties. He must have a about their eyes are in need of ex- knowledge of eugenics, pediatrics, pert advice. It is wiser to spend a neurology and general medicine. He modest fee on a thorough eye ex- must always have in mind syphilis, amination if your eyes bother you, tuberculosis, the toxemias, and the than to fool around with various focal infections and even the var-eye drops for treatment which may ious tumors...
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