The art of preserving the sight unimpaired to an extreme old age : and of re-establishing and strenthening it when it is become weak ... To which are added observations on the inconveinces ... of common spectacles / By an experienced ocultist [G.J. Beer].

  • Beer, Georg Josef, 1763-1821
Date:
1824
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Credit: The art of preserving the sight unimpaired to an extreme old age : and of re-establishing and strenthening it when it is become weak ... To which are added observations on the inconveinces ... of common spectacles / By an experienced ocultist [G.J. Beer]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. THE VISUAL FACULTY is that sense which, of all our exterior ones, affords us the most extensive, the most constant, and the most - yaried, sources of pleasure and delight. Even in the declining years of a lengthened life, we remember, and in the remembrance en- joy, all the gratification which has arisen, and that in our juvenile days, from the charms of romantic scenery, from the contemplation of exquisite paintings; and, in short, all the objects which have ever delighted us through the medium of the outward sense, are still vi- ‘siblein the mind’s eye. It may, indeed, be said, that the outward organ procures for us new pleasures in each succeeding moment, whilst all the other senses, which impel us to- wards enjoyments without ceasing, cannot pre- sent us with even one so desirable, so versatile, and yet so harmless to the animal economy. a3