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One of Fresno's most promising professional men. Dr. Eugene W. Laisne, was surely destined, by virtue of his natural ability, to be a genius among Optometrists. Unusually gifted as a mechanical manipulator and inventor, the human eye has been to him an open book. His intellectual perception also amounts to a real intuition, by which he is able to discover the actual visual condition of his patients, apart from their own statements regarding their eye troubles. Dr. Laisne obtained his training and experience in optical work in that great center of world life, New York City, and in several other leading cities of the East, where he studied and practiced under some of the most noted men in the profession, and became familiar with the latest apparatus and methods. In 1909 he came to California and in July of that year graduated from the Los Angeles College of Optometry and Ophthalmology.

Dr. Laisne chose Fresno as the place in which to build himself up in his rising profession, and in 1910 he opened an office in the Republican Building, and began the practice which has placed him — in the opinion of those most familiar with his work — among the very best Optometrists and Opticians in California. After the death of Dr. Rowell in 1912, Dr. Laisne was able to occupy the well-known rooms in the corner of the second floor of the Republican Building, which Dr. Rowell had used for so many years. Here he remained until May, 1918, when his increasing business and growing reputation demanded a more commodious and accessible location. He leased and fitted up his present admirably equipped offices and work shop, adjoining the Bank and Trust Company of Central California, at 1054 J Street, and exactly opposite that old landmark, the Grand Central Hotel. Since removing to this prominent location, his business has more than doubled, and will undoubtedly increase rapidly from year to year.

If we add to his genius for Optical work and invention, a rare philosophical insight and an intense desire to be thorough in all his professional work, together with an unusual amount of industry, we have the causes of his remarkable success in treating the eyes of thousands of people in this city and county, and in the valley at large. In many of his cases, Dr. Laisne has been wonderfully successful in restoring and strengthening vision, and in removing the source of various nervous disorders, as well as that of various other organic troubles which (the medical profession now asserts) are largely due to defects of vision, and are amenable to correcting lenses. The writer confidently predicts that Dr. Laisne's fame as an eye specialist will extend throughout the State of California, and probably throughout the country.