Your ShelfYour Projects

Eye-Sight

8%

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 20, 1864

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 24, No. 17.

Read the full edition

Eye-Sight.

Milton's blindness was in consequence of overwork and dyspepsia.
Multitudes of men and women have made their eyes weak for life by the too free use of their eye-sight reading small print and doing fine sewing. In doing those things it is well to observe the following rules in the use of the eyes:
Avoid all sudden changes between light and darkness.
Never read by twilight, or moon-light or on a cloudy day.
Never read or sew directly in front of a light, window, or door.
Never begin to read, or write, or sew for several minutes after coming from darkness to a bright light.
It is better to have the light from above obliquely over the left shoulder.
Never sleep so that on the first waking, the eyes shall open on the light of a window.
Do not use the eye-sight by a light so scant that it requires an effort to discriminate.
The moment that you are instinctively prompted to rub the eyes, that moment cease using them.
[Hall's Journal of Health.]