Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1896 — To Remove Substances from the Eye. [ARTICLE]

To Remove Substances from the Eye.

When an insect, a grain of sand, or any similar substance lodges on the surface of the eye, the consequence is pain and inflammation, terminating, if neglected, in obscurity or dimness of vision, and sometimes loss of sight. The substance may either lie loose on the surface, or, having penetrated the outer coat, may remain there fixed. In the former case it is easily removed by means of a camel-hair pencil dipped in oil, or what is better, a bit of white paper rolled yp to the size of a quill and softened in the mouth. When the substance is fixed in the coats of the eye, a surgical operation becomes necessary to remove it. The accident is frequent amongst smiths, and it is recognized amongst them as a “fire in the eye,” some one of the craft being usually celebrated for removing it, emjiloying for that purpose his nail, his tongue, or the first rude instrument that may come within his reach.