Примечания 1 The unnatural strain of accommodating the eyes to close work (for which they were not intended) leads to myopia in a large proportion of growing children — Rosenau Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, third edition, 1917, p. 1093. 2 The compulsion of fate as well as an error of evolution has brought it about that the unaided eye must persistently struggle against the astonishing difficulties and errors inevitable in its structure function and circumstance — Gould The Cause, Nature and Consequences of Eyestrain, Pop Sci Monthly, Dec., 1905. 3 With the invention of writing and then with the invention of the printing-press a new element was introduced, and one evidently not provided for by the process of evolution The human eye which had been evolved for distant vision is being forced to perform a new part, one for which it had not been evolved, and for which it is poorly adapted The difficulty is being daily augmented — Scott The Sacrifice of the Eyes of School Children, Pop Sci Monthly, Oct., 1907 4 Ford Details of Military Medical Administration published with the approval of the Surgeon General, U. S. Army, second revised edition, 1918, pp. 498–499. 5 Диоптер — это фокусирующая сила, необходимая для приведения параллельных лучей в фокус на расстоянии одного метра. 6 Tr. Ophth. Soc. U. Kingdom, vol. XXXVIII, 1918, pp. 130–131. 7 Harvard Manual of Military Hygiene for the Military Services of the United States, published under the authority and with the approval of the Surgeon General, U. S. Army third revised edition, 1917, p. 195. 8 Standards of Physical Examination for the Use of Local Boards, District Boards, and Medical Advisory Boards under the Selective Service Regulations, issued through the office of the Provost Marshal General, 1918. 9 Report of the Provost Marshal General to the Secretary of War on the First Draft under the Selective Service Act, 1917. 10 Second Report of the Provost Marshal General to the Secretary of War on the Operations of the Selective Service System to December 20, 1918. 11 От греческого «myein», «закрыть», или «пытаться смотреть, как крот». Условие, в котором объект прикрывает глаза или прищуривается. 12 Archiv f Augenh, vol. LXXIX, 1915, translated in Arch. Ophth., vol. XLV, No. 6, Nov., 1916. 13