Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is but one condition under which the symptoms described with the prompt restoration of sight are found. It is often characterized by the numbness referred to either in the legs or other parts of the body. It is known as psychic or mind blindness. It is purely a mental and functional condition in which no organic structural change is present. It is not even a very uncommon condition and no one thinks of treating it in any other way than by influencing the mind of the victim of this obsession...
When the person so affected is impressed with the belief that his sight will be restored even if it has been lost for a long time, it comes back again no matter how this belief is conveyed to him. A positive assurance made by the person in whom he has faith will usually effect a cure. A typical instance of this is described in the little booklet, "What You Should Know About Eyes," forming one of the National Health Series published by Funk & Wagnalls...
...birth passages of the mother. It excites an inflammation so intense that in many cases the eyes are irrevocably lost before it can be controlled. The discovery made more than half a century ago, that the organisms causing this inflammation could be made innocuous without injury to the sight, was epoch-making and the simple measures recommended for this purpose are now used in every civilized community throughout the world. They are employed in every public hospital as well as by private practitioners. These methods have reduced blindness during the last 25 years from 26% to less than...
...done, says Editor Armstrong. U. S. sentiment is still strong for isolation, but it will have to learn better. "In a surge of reaction against all that they had been through in 1917-1918 the American people decided to learn nothing from that experience. . . . We are not yet in sight of the time when the great American public will see that there is one way, and one only, for them to make certain of not being involved in future world wars: that there be none...
...acknowledged great man. While he kept plodding through the academic maze, Margery did her best to keep up with him, was beguiled into one blind alley after another. By the time Luke was an assistant professor of educational psychology in a midwestern university, Margery thought the goal was in sight. What Luke saw was not a goal but the monster at the end of the labyrinth. Before it was too late he resigned his job, took his wife and son back to the old home town where they belonged...