Ophthalmology

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MASSAGE, AN OCCUPATION FOR THE BLIND. By L. Webster Fox, A.M., M.D. PHILADELPHIA, PA. The A-ery important question of providing employment for intelligent blind persons is now occupying, more than ever, the attention of all who are interested in their welfare, and certainly none is more solicitous for...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MASSAGE, AN OCCUPATION FOR THE BLIND. By L. Webster Fox, A.M., M.D. PHILADELPHIA, PA. The A-ery important question of providing employment for intelligent blind persons is now occupying, more than ever, the attention of all who are interested in their welfare, and certainly none is more solicitous for their welfare than the ophthalmologist. He is, however, too often at a loss when a hopeless case of blindness comes under his notice, as to what occupation he should recommend the poor sufferer to pursue. Organ playing, music teaching and piano tuning are fairly remunerative to the blind; but all do not possess the necessary qualifications, and it is not always easy to find such occupation for those who have the requisite ability. It is well, therefore, that we can confidently recommend the systematic, careful training of capable, healthy blind persons in the art of massage as a remunerative employment for them. From time immemorial massage has been practiced by the blind in Japan, and, with the view of introducing a new occupation for the blind in England, the Institute for Massage by the Blind was founded a few years ago in London. It received at once the enthusiastic and powerful support of such eminent members of the medical profession as Dr. Henry Power (an ex-president of the Royal College of Surgeons), Sir Anderson Critchett and others, who also became acting directors of the institute. There are now 21 masseuses and 15 masseurs on the list of the blind graduates of the institute, and the greatest satisfaction is expressed by those who employ them. It is, however, not sufficiently well known that in a quiet way instruction in massage has for some years past been given to blind persons in the ordinary massage classes of the Philadelphia Orthopaedic Hospital and Infi...