Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1917 — ARTIFICAL EYES OF RUBBER [ARTICLE]

ARTIFICAL EYES OF RUBBER

Discovery of Two French Workmen Meets With Favor. Artificial eyes made of rubber instead of glass, and said to be more comfortable and fully as advantageous in other ways, have been evolved by two French workers, Lemaitre and Teuillieres, who aimed at producing a substance of sufficient elasticity and softness to respond to the changes in the eye socket and at the same time of sufficient hardness to present a smooth, natural effect between the eyelids They solved the difficulty of consist* ence by making the front of the new eye. ofhard.CAOUtCilQJMh.vulcanized, and enameled to represent the natural appearance, and the back of the eye of soft caoutchouc, hollowed out on the form of a ball and filled with air. These hollow eyes are said to answer the purpose welL. They are soft and elastic: they respond in a remarkable manner to the ocular movements they do not irritate the socket; and they have the great additional advantage of being unbreakable.