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  1. Living with vision loss 
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/patientinstructions/000526.htm
    ... to the point where you can't see well enough to read, it may be helpful to learn Braille while you are still able to see. People with vision worse than 20/200, with glasses or contact lenses, are considered legally blind in most states in ...
  2. Vision Impairment and Blindness 
    https://medlineplus.gov/visionimpairmentandblindness.html
    ... of a vision problem can include not being able to see well enough to: Do ... you are wearing glasses or contacts. What are the types of low vision? There ...
  3. xmlmplus_topics_2025-07-02.xml 
    https://medlineplus.gov/xml/mplus_topics_2025-07-02.xml
    ... of a vision problem can include not being able to see well enough to:</p> <ul> ... you are wearing glasses or contacts.</p> <h3>What are the types of low ...
  4. NLM Digital Collections - Clippings About DeBakey 
    https://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101662437X82
    ... per- but, in the near future, wé may well do A KNIFE ACROSS THE EYE T0 SEE WITHOUT GLASSES . them or contact lenses. Now I drive, see Radial keratotomy corrects nearsight- ...
  5. Age-related farsightedness (presbyopia): Learn More – How can age-related farsightedness be corrected? - InformedHealth.... 
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK423827
    ... it unpleasant, they may stop wearing them. Monovision contact lenses affect ... the “near” eye to see clearly when looking at things that are further ...
  6. NLM Digital Collections - Briefer physiology and hygiene : with practical exercises 
    Publication: Boston : D. C. Heath & Co., [1914]
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/07430480R
    ... usually becomes less elastic and is no longer able to grow more convex. Artificial lenses (eyeglasses) are then used to enable one to see near objects clearly. Most elderly people see fairly well at a distance, but use glasses for reading ...
  7. NLM Digital Collections - Eye defects : how to detect and correct them 
    Publication: New York : Spencer Optical Mfg. Co., [1898?]
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/67950980R
    ... manifest hyper- metropia ; so that the eye is able to see well at a distance either with or without glasses. Field of vision—the space in which objects can be perceived. Franklin glasses—(see bifocals.) Glasses for far-sight ; the strongest lenses with which the person has just as good ...
  8. NLM Digital Collections - The human body : an account of its structure and activities and the conditions of its healthy ... 
    Publication: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 1896
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/07120700R
    ... accommodation. Such persons complain that they can read well enough for a time, but soon fail to be able to see distinctly. This kind of weak sight should always lead to examination of the eyes by an oculist, to see if glasses are needed; otherwise severe neuralgic pains about the ...
  9. NLM Digital Collections - Subcommittee on Ophthalmology 
    https://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101085500X777
    ... other men tolerated the glasses in England very well. Doctor Gradle told of a ... good enough for the service examination without the contact glasses. ...
  10. NLM Digital Collections - A dictionary of medicine : including general pathology, general therapeutics, hygiene, and ... 
    Publication: New York : D. Appleton and Company ..., 1888
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/100912830
    ... the hinges should be strong, the sides long enough to hold securely without ... eyes as 1751 ' See Ferrier, ' ('crebral Amblyopia and Hemiopia,' Bro 1,1. ...
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