Eyesight, and how to care for it / edited by George Black.

Date:
[1888]
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Credit: Eyesight, and how to care for it / edited by George Black. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lid was everted, a germinating seed with quite a well developed sprout was found in the fold of the con- junctiva, where it had been liberally supplied with the requisites of warmth and moisture. The patient then remembered that she had placed her faith in an eye-stone. It is hardly necessary to warn intelligent readers against such mistakes as this, but it may be well to suggest that it is a very simple and easy thing to ever/ the eyelid, and that many hours of really serious suf- fering may often be saved by it, particularly in travel- ling. Direct the sufferer to look well downwards, then, taking the lashes of the upper lid between the finger and thumb, stretch the lid downwards and out- wards, place the point of a pencil on the upper part of the lid, above the top of the ball, and press it downwards while the edge of the lid is raised. The inner surface of the lid is thus exposed, and the cinder can be readily removed by touching it with a fold of a handkerchief When the mote is just within the margin of the lid, it may sometimes be removed by drawing the upper lid well down and pressing it against the skin of the lower lid. When the foreign body has lodged on the firmer tissue of the cornea, its extraction is not so simple a matter, and rubbing only presses it in more firmly. The particle is usually driven with some force, as from a hammer or turning-lathe, but may be simply