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Excerpt from Conserving Vision: An Essay on the Prevalence of Poor Eyesight and the Relations of Eyestrain, Illumination, Structural Defects of the Eye, Accidents, and Eye Diseases, to the Conservation of Vision
Yet the eye has been the victim of serious abuse and neglect, and the mistreatment is reflected in present conditions, which are little realized and have been given but slight attention. In the United States there are estimated to be persons totally or practically blind. And most of this blindness is preventable. But there is another situation of far more gravity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
