‘THE soul, fortunately, has an interpreter—often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter—in the eye,” wrote Charlotte Bronte in her famed Jane Eyre. Marcus Tullius Cicero had the same view when he said: “The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.”
A survey was conducted on which is the most important among the five senses: sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch. It was found that their eyesight is the mode of perception they value—and fear losing—most.
Unknowingly, there are those who suffer from night blindness even at a younger age. This is true in the Philippines. A study was conducted in three provinces (Quezon, Northern Samar and Zamboanga del Sur) among 11,378 children between six and 83 months of age. Prevalence rate ranged from 1.6 to 4.4 percent.
Known in medical science as nyctalopia, night blindness is a condition making it difficult or impossible to see in relatively low light. A symptom of several eye diseases, it may exist from birth or be caused by injury. Read more