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Andy sends a complete, 20volume set of
the World Book Encyclopedia to Serge
Rochelle, age 12, of Peiawaw, Ont., for his
question:
How do glassei help the eyes?
Some of us need glasses to get a clear
picture of the distant scenery. Others need
glasses to read a page of print. But this docs
not mean that the eyes are sick or damaged.
They just need a little help to do their work
better. The lenses in a pair of glasses do
what the eyes would do for themselves if
they could.
All day long, your eyes are busy taking
colored, three-dimensional movies. They work
much like a camera, though they are far
better than the best man-made camera. Each
eye is a round ball. The cornea is that bulge
on the front of the eye ball and the lens is
a window pane of transparent tissue behind
it. The cornea and lens work together to
cast pictures on the retina, which is a kind
of movie screen inside the back of the eye
ball. The scenery outdoor, a room and even a
page of print are very large pictures. These
large pictures must be condensed in perfect
detail to tiny, tiny pictures. The tiny copies
must fall exactly on the retina. The outside
picture reaches the eye on beams of light
and they must be tapered at just the correct
angles.
This job is done by the lens and the cor
nea. When viewing a close object, the lens
squeezes up and becomes thicker. When
gazing at the distant scenery, the lens re
laxes and become thinner. This adjusts the
tapering angles of the light so that pictures
from near and far focus exactly on the
retina.
Nearsighted people see close objects
clearly, but distance objects are blurred.
This is because the light is tapered to form
a picture just in front of the retina. Glasses,
with concave lenses cause the light rays to
fan out a little before they reach the eye.
The eye can taper these rays to form a pic
ture farther back where it focuses directly
on the retina.
Other sight problems call for different
types of eye glasses. The expert to consult
in all cases is an oculist. He is a doctor
qualified to test the eyes and order the right
glasses. The optician is the man who makes
the glasses and frames and carried out the
orders of the oculist.
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A World Book Encyclopedia for tba first question
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To Your Good Health
Ingrown Toenails 'Man-Made'
By DR. JOSEPH G. MOLNER
Dear Dr. Molner: My son has
an ingrown toenail. What can
be done about it? MRS. B.C.
Ingrown nails are man-made,
almost always.
They are painful and poten
tially dangerous. If an infection
starts, you have real trouble.
Causes vary. Commonest of
all is improper trimming. You
can give your fingernails an ar
tistic curve because they are not
subjected to constant pressure.
The toenails arc.
If the nail is gradually bent
downward until the corner is
embedded in the flesh, then sub
sequent growth can be excru
tiatingly painful.
Therefore, never permit the
corner of the nail to be cut so
short that the edge can he
pressed down into the flesh. We
usually say that nails should be
"cut straight across." This is not
precisely accurate. You don't,
obviously, want square, sharp
corners on the nails. But you do
want to give the nail only a very
gentle curve, and you certainly
never should cut it too short.
Add to this' shoes that arc too
tight, too narrow or too short
and you have all the makings of
an ingrown nail. Tight socks
also can do the damage; they
hold the nail down tightly
against the flesh.
Deformities of the font or
the toe, and sometimes defects
of the nail itself can be part of
the trouble, but not always.
Corrective measures? Trim
nails so they have to grow over
the toes and can't dig in. Wear
shoes and stockings of larger
size.
And place some cotton pack
ing (moisten it with alcohol as
an antiseptic) under the nail,
thus gradually training it to
grow upward just enough so it
cannot thrust into the toe. The
nail grows slowly, so do not ex
pect a few days of this pro
cedure to fix everything.
Where such methods are not
sufficient, the problem deserves
to be in professional hands,
either your regular doctor or a
podiatrist. In some cases part
of the edge of the nail must be
removed; sometimes the entire
nail should be removed.
Dear Dr. Molner: You have
You personally may not
have received more mail last
year, but the mail volume
processed during the last
fiscal year increased to ap
proximately 64,933,000,000
pieces as compared with
63,675,000,000 the preceding
year.'
C Encyclopedia Britannic
written concerning diabetes that
the normal amount of sugar in
the fasting state is 120 milli
grams. In the hospital where I
have my tests, they use 60 to
90. The difference is confusing
W.M.
That is understandable. It is a
difference in the laboratory
method being used, and the 120
figure is older and hence more
familiar to most people. The
newer method of measuring is
thought to give a true glucose
value.
Dear Dr. Molner: I once had
duodenal ulcers. Two years ago
my stomach became obstructed
and I was operated on for gas
troenterostomy and cutting of
the vagus nerve. Recently I
have begun to have the old fa
miliar symptoms of ulcers again.
Is this possible after such sur
gery? MRS. A. M.
Yes, it's possible for new ul
cers to form at the site of the
surgery. X-rays should prove
whether this has happened, and
if so, you'll probably have to re
sume the old ulcer routine. I
hope further surgery won't be
necessary.
Tattooing Not Old
Tattooing has been practiced
less than 200 years in the West
ern World, says the National
Geographic Magazine. Early
visitors to Tahiti found both
men and women decorated with
"laltows." Some sailors under
went the painful operation of
having their skin pricked with a
sharp bone dipped in soot and
coconut oil. They set the style
for the traditional mark of a
seaman.
Typewriter
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Specializes
In Speed
Capacity 15,000
Words Per Minute
WASHINGTON New type
writers are fast, versatile, and
good spellers.
One machine turns out 15,000
words of faultless copy per min
ute, but it never will expedite
business correspondence. The
device is designed to transcribe
data from high-speed computers.
An experimental phonetic
typewriter takes dictation,
checks the sounds against its
correctly records the words. A
"spelling memory unit, and
new carriagelcss electric type
writer can tap out 186 words
per minute if the typists fin
gers are nimble enough.
Modified keyboards also speed
typing, the National Geographic
Society says. Chemists are able
to type technical symbols into
their reports instead of labori
ously drawing them by hand. In
surance company secretaries
need strike only one key to
write the word "age."
The modern machines are a
far cry from the slow, clumsy
early models. Though Queen
Anne of England granted a
patent for a "writing machine"
in 1714, it was not until 1867
that Christopher Latham Sholes
of Milwaukee invented the first
practical typewriter.
Sholes, who once said, "All
my life I have been trying to
escape being a millionaire," sold
the rights to his invention for
$12,000 to E. Remington Ji
Sons, a small-arms manufactur
er. Remington improved it, and
produced the first commercial
typewriter in 1873.
Remington No. 1 resembled
an ungainly sewing machine,
complete with a foot treadle to
return the carriage. It printed
only capital letters. An ornate
mode! decorated with mother-of-pearl
was shown at the 1876
Centennial Exposition in Phila
delphia. It was completely over
shadowed by another exhibit
Dr. Alexander Graham Bell's
telephone.
But the typewriter slowly
caught on helped by promo
tion claims that it offered a
complete safeguard against
"pen paralysis, loss of sight and
curvature of the spine."
Speed contests also helped
sell the typewriters. One com
pany had a stable of racing
typists who trained daily on
souped-up stock models adjust
ed for hair-trigger response.
In 1880, the New York YWCA
offered a course on the
"mechanical chirographcr" for
strong young ladies. The insti
tution was accused of an error
in judgment because the female
mind and constitution were too
frail to survive the rigors of six i 3
months of typing instruction, t
The women survived, and the
typewriter soon opened thou
sands of offices to women for
the first time.
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