「目医者、歯医者が医者ならば、蝶やトンボも鳥のうち」これは一種のニヒリズムか？同級生の一人に「どうってことない人生」と言った男がいたが、共感できる。 一方、見る，聴く、嗅ぐ、触る、味わうのように、私たちは五感によって世界を知る。なかでも目からの情報は、全体の約８０％を占めると言われる。今から１１０余年前に眼科学に対して次のような発言をした人物がいた。明治３０年の第１回日本眼科学会総会開会式での河本重次郎氏の挨拶の一文である。「諸君、国家は眼科に得る所すこぶる多し、眼科は小科といえどもその及ぼす所や大なり。人々の視力その明不明は、小にしては一家の貧富に関し、大にしては一国の盛衰に直接す。故に文明の国家は常に眼科を尊崇せざるなし。もし国あり眼科の重きを知らざれば、是れ不明の国なり。是れ盲国なり。是れ亡国なり。」（参考図書：日本眼科学会百周年記念誌 日本眼科の歴史１ 明治篇、日本眼科学会、１９９７）
"If the eye doctor and the dentist are doctors, butterflies and dragonflies are also birds" Is this a kind of nihilism? There was a man who told one of my classmates, "There is no such thing as life", but I can sympathize with him. On the other hand, we know the world by five senses, like seeing, listening, sniffing, touching and tasting. It is said that information from the eyes, in particular, accounts for about 80% of the total. There was a person who made the following remarks to ophthalmology over 110 years ago from now. It is a sentence of Mr. Shijiro Kawamoto's speech at the opening ceremony of the first session of the Japanese Ophthalmological Society of Meiji 30. "Many people get the ophthalmology, the ophthalmology department is big and big, even though it is a small department.The sight of the people is obvious, in small terms, it is related to the family's rich and poor, As a result, the nation of civilization always has to respect the ophthalmologist.If you do not know the weight of the ophthalmologist with the country, it is a country unknown and it is a blind country, it is a defeated country. " Reference books: Memorial magazine of the Japanese Academy of Sciences Japanese History of Ophthalmology 1 Meiji, Japan Ophthalmological Society, 1997)