Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1911 — CHANGE IN COLOR OF EYES [ARTICLE]

CHANGE IN COLOR OF EYES

By No Means Uncommon, and Easily Accounted For, According to Surgeon. The possibility of a man’s eyes changing as the result of mental shock or physical iH treatment was the subject of an interesting discussion by a number of surgeons in the eye ward of one of the great London hospitals. One of the surgeons stated: *Tt is common knowledge that great physical hardships may suddenly turn the hair white. The loss of color here follows on certain chemical changes, due to disturbances of nutrition, taking place In the tiny particles of coloring matter which give the hair its color. “All infants at birth have blue eyes. In 'some babies, Immediately after birth, pigment granules begin to develop in the iris. Thus they become brown or black eyed. In others, however, no Buch pigment formation takes place, and the eyes remain blue or gray throughout life. “If this at present blue-eyed ex-con-vlct Is really the missing browneyed banker, a reasonable explanation of the discrepancy in the eye colprings would be that under the stress of physical and mental shock the coloring matter which had in early life developed In each iris had atrophied or disappeared, leaving the eyes the original blue coloring present at birth.”