Word: ocular
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...obvious that the profession of dentistry in its improved state requires an elaborate educational preparation, a preparation which must provide opportunity to acquire a large amount of varied knowledge, and a high degree of ocular and manual skill. Therefore a dental school is a proper part of a university...
...strong and vigorous as well as by the weak and poorly nourished. The relation of the general health to the muscles of the eye is therefore a question of interest to oculists, to persons who have such headaches and even to those in perfect health. For, if the ocular muscles of the latter are not also proportionally strong, such persons may suffer from eye strain at any time or else resort to glasses prematurely. These difficulties have received much attention of late years from aphthalmologists and two of them are making a series of simple tests to determine the relation...
...visual truths are, however, not those which are commonly perceived. "People commonly," he tells us, "recognize objects by their least important attributes. To lay hold of the non fundamental and expressive truths, in the manner of Turner, requires a higher order of artistic gift, and to appreciate them requires ocular training, as well as natural aptitude...