Defects of sight and hearing : their nature, causes, prevention, and general management / by T. Wharton Jones.

  • Thomas Wharton Jones
Date:
1859
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    3G DMMH Of sk.iii' When a foreign body has got into the eye, pmlonged attempt.- to remove it byu incompetent penon should not rmittedj but the patient should forthwith obtain the assistance oft Burgeon. In general, tin' foreign body may be at onoe discovered and removed with the great* »i and with little or no pain. Soraping the cornea in attempts to remove a particle adhering to its surface IS, as above mentioned, likely to excite a most dangerous inflammation of tlu Accidenle often occur from arrows and other projectiles, with which boys play, striking the eyes. Sneh iraines should be prohibited where people are passing to and fro. udicial reaction of certain ttatet of the B<nly on the K//(s. Suppression of the perspiratory action of the skin is, as is well known, very dangerous to the health in general. It is so likewise to the sight. We ought, therefore, while perspiring, to iruard against being chilled. The state of the skin, indeed, exerts as important an influence, for good or evil, on the (yes and sight as on any other organ and function of the body. Amaurosis [obscuration; impairment or loss of vision from paralysis of the optic nervous apparatus] has been brought on by Budden suppression of perspiration of the and it is not at all uncommon for persons when chilled to be seized with a catarrhal or rheumatic ophthal- mia. If this recurs even to the healthiest, how much more readily will the eyes be affected when already predisposed either by natural delicacy, by previous over-exertion, by disordered digestion, &c.