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C. E. FERREE, Ph.D.; G. RAND, Ph.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1937;17(1):78-103.

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A strong incentive for our work in physiologic optics has been to help prepare the way for a more extensive use of hygienic measures in the care and treatment of the eye. The subject of hygiene has been built up in the attempt to preserve and restore normality of function through regulation of the conditions under which the organ functions. In relation to the care of the organs of the body the growth of hygiene has been rapid. In relation to the sense organs, however, its progress, it would seem, has suffered perhaps undue retardation. Whether this situation is intrinsic or merely marks a stage in the development of the subject time alone can tell. In the case of the eye, at least, it would seem that hygiene can be made to play a much more important part than it now does, that is, that the care and treatment of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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BALTIMORE

From the Research Laboratory of Physiological Optics.

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