Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1887 — How Eye Diseases Are Spread. [ARTICLE]

How Eye Diseases Are Spread.

To mention a few of the modes of contagion, I have to speak, in the first place, of towels, especially of that abominable institution known as the roller-towel, which Las been used so much in asylumns where forty, fifty, or more children use the same ~ttjwelr whether they have granular lids or not. True, in a great many of these cases tho existence of granular lids was not known; but even in cases in which the existence of the disease was evident, the ignorance or carelessness of the persons in charge has allowed transmission by means of towels to be one of the most frequent sources of contagion. As a carrier of the contagion, the house-fly plays an important rale, especially in cases, of young children who are not able to protect themselves against the visits of this little animal. Attracted by the sweetish odor of the discharge, it will settle upon the eyes of children affected with the disease, especially infants, and carry the contagion in its claws to the other eye or the eyes of sleeping infants.—Medical and Surgical Record. Throat troubles yield promptly to Red Star Cough Cure, as vouched lor by U. S. Architect Clark. Its ingredients are purely vegetable and free from opiates. 25 cents.