Editing Myopia (section)

==History==
The difference between the near-sighted and far-sighted people was noted already by [[Aristotle]].<ref name="myopia">{{cite book | veditors = Spaide RF, Ohno-Matsui KM, Yannuzzi LA | title =Pathologic Myopia| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=X1u4BAAAQBAJ| publisher =Springer Science & Business Media| year = 2013| page =2| isbn =978-1461483380}}</ref> Graeco-Roman physician [[Galen]] first used the term "myopia" (from Greek words "myein" meaning "to close or shut" and "ops" (gen. opos) meaning "eye") for near-sightedness.<ref name="myopia" /> The first spectacles for correcting myopia were invented by a German cardinal in the year 1451.<ref>{{cite web |title=Myopia – Birth Story |url=http://birthstory.net/tag/myopia/ |access-date=1 June 2020 |archive-date=20 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160420115527/http://birthstory.net/tag/myopia/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Johannes Kepler]] in his ''Clarification of Ophthalmic Dioptrics'' (1604) first demonstrated that myopia was due to the incident light focusing in front of the retina. Kepler also showed that myopia could be corrected by concave lenses.<ref name="myopia" /> In 1632, [[Vopiscus Fortunatus Plempius]] examined a myopic eye and confirmed that myopia was due to a lengthening of its axial diameter.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Dunphy EB | title = The biology of myopia | journal = The New England Journal of Medicine | volume = 283 | issue = 15 | pages = 796–800 | date = October 1970 | pmid = 4917270 | doi = 10.1056/NEJM197010082831507 }}</ref>

The idea that myopia was caused by the [[eye strain]] involved in reading or doing other work close to the eyes was a consistent theme for several centuries.<ref name=":2" />  In Taiwan, faced with a staggering rise in the number of young military recruits needing glasses, the schools were told to give students' eyes a 10-minute break after every half-hour of reading; however, the rate of myopia continued to climb.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3">{{Cite journal |last1=Jonas |first1=Jost B. |last2=Ang |first2=Marcus |last3=Cho |first3=Pauline |last4=Guggenheim |first4=Jeremy A. |last5=He |first5=Ming Guang |last6=Jong |first6=Monica |last7=Logan |first7=Nicola S. |last8=Liu |first8=Maria |last9=Morgan |first9=Ian |last10=Ohno-Matsui |first10=Kyoko |last11=Pärssinen |first11=Olavi |last12=Resnikoff |first12=Serge |last13=Sankaridurg |first13=Padmaja |last14=Saw |first14=Seang-Mei |last15=Smith |first15=Earl L. |date=2021-04-28 |title=IMI Prevention of Myopia and Its Progression |journal=Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science |volume=62 |issue=5 |pages=6 |doi=10.1167/iovs.62.5.6 |issn=1552-5783 |pmc=8083117 |pmid=33909032}}</ref>  The policy that reversed the epidemic of myopia was the government ordering all schools to have the children outside for a minimum of 80 minutes every day.<ref name=":3" />