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Where Did Bifocal Contact Lenses Originate

May 19th, 2009

The fact that primitive woman was a seamstress, an embroiderer, a weaver, an artist in all sorts of fine and beautiful work, appears to have been generally forgotten. Yet women living under primitive conditions have just as good eyesight as the men.

When man learned how to communicate his thoughts to others by means of written and printed forms, there came some undeniably new demands upon the eye, affecting at first only a few people but gradually including more and more, until now, in the more advanced countries, the great mass of the population is subjected to their influence, and bifocal contact lenses are selling like hot cakes on a cold day.

A few hundred years ago even princes were not taught to read and write. Now we compel everyone to go to school, whether he wishes to or not, and even babies are sent to kindergarten.

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