Medicine: Aniseikonia

Reading eyes grow blurred, skip words and lines. Heads ache, nerves twitch, stomachs misbehave. Students fail in their classes. Motorists and aviators misjudge distances, sometimes fatally. Many a person so afflicted has gone from one eye doctor to another, without relief. He was suffering from no ailment known to ophthalmology.

Last week to the New York Academy of Medicine, Dartmouth's Professor Adelbert Ames Jr. announced that his research department of physiological optics had found the ailment which may cause these disorders, had developed a means of correcting it. Though only about 1,000 cases...

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