Abstract

In this article I shall make known certain objections to the present pattern of spectacles. A knowledge of the anatomy of the nose reveals how errors were made and how they may be corrected. I do not question the artisan's diligentness to produce a frame pleasing in appearance and, furthermore, to produce a mechanism that makes it adaptable to the different types of noses, and I grant that he has accomplished what he sought to do. His want of anatomic knowledge, however, has permitted him to err. Hence, I shall describe the anatomic characteristics of the region at the base of the nose in order to acquaint him with the footing on which he has rested the newer type of frame. One may carve in marble likenesses of the different types of human noses and think it proper to model spectacle frames on them, but it is not

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