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EYE EXAMINATION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN

EYE EXAMINATION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN George Bernard Shaw1 in "Mainly About Myself," his preface to "Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant," offered the following explanation why he did not succeed in fiction: [I received] a clue to my real condition from a friend of mine, a physician who had devoted himself specially to ophthalmic surgery. He tested my eyesight one evening, and informed me that it was quite uninteresting to him because it was "normal." I naturally took this to mean that it was like everybody else's; but he rejected this construction as paradoxical and hastened to explain to me that I was an exceptional and highly fortunate person optically, "normal" sight conferring the power of seeing things accurately, and being enjoyed by only about 10 per cent of the population, the remaining 90 per cent being abnormal. I immediately perceived the explanation of my want of success in fiction. My mind's eye, like my body's, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png JAMA American Medical Association

EYE EXAMINATION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN

RODIN, FRANK H.
JAMA , Volume 93 (12) – Sep 21, 1929
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American Medical Association
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Copyright © 1929 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved. Applicable FARS/DFARS Restrictions Apply to Government Use.
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0098-7484
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10.1001/jama.1929.02710120023007
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George Bernard Shaw1 in "Mainly About Myself," his preface to "Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant," offered the following explanation why he did not succeed in fiction: [I received] a clue to my real condition from a friend of mine, a physician who had devoted himself specially to ophthalmic surgery. He tested my eyesight one evening, and informed me that it was quite uninteresting to him because it was "normal." I naturally took this to mean that it was like everybody else's; but he rejected this construction as paradoxical and hastened to explain to me that I was an exceptional and highly fortunate person optically, "normal" sight conferring the power of seeing things accurately, and being enjoyed by only about 10 per cent of the population, the remaining 90 per cent being abnormal. I immediately perceived the explanation of my want of success in fiction. My mind's eye, like my body's,

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Published: Sep 21, 1929

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