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Excerpt from: Preventable Blindness We all know that a large number of people become blind every year. But it is not generally, known that many human eyes are needlessly lost which, if right corrective and preventive measures were employed, would be saved to the service of the world. And what we should know, in particular, is that much of this blindness can be prevented by the mothers themselves.... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | Preventable Blindness | |
| From: | Out Of The Dark | |
| Creator: | Helen Keller (author) | |
| Date: | 1920 | |
| Format: | Article | |
| Publisher: | Doubleday, Page & Company, New York | |
| Source: | Available at selected libraries | |
| Location: | pp.160-172 | |
| Keywords: | Advocacy; Blind; Deaf; Deaf-blind; Disease; Doctors; Helen Keller; Medical Professionals; Medicine; Medicine & Science; Prevention; Public Health & Welfare; Reproduction; Sensory Disability; Sexuality; Social Welfare & Communities; Venereal Disease; Women & Gender | |
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| Note: | First published as "Unnecessary Blindness" in The Ladies' Home Journal, January 1907. |
