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CAUSES AND PREVENTION There are many cases of See also:

complete or partial See also:blindness which might have been prevented, and a knowledge of the best methods of prevention and cure should be spread as widely as possible. See also:Magnus, See also:Bremer, Steffen and Rdssler are of See also:opinion that 40 % of the cases of blindness might have been prevented. See also:Hayes gives 33.35 % as positively avoidable, 38.75 % possibly avoidable, and 46.27 % as a conservative estimate. See also:Cohn regards blindness as certainly preventable in 33 %, as probably preventable in 43 %, and as quite unpreventable in only 24 %. If we take the lowest of these figures, and assume that 400 out of every See also:I000 See also:blind persons might have been saved from such a calamity, we realize the importance of preventative See also:measures.

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