Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1888 — Don’t Bandage a Sore Eye. [ARTICLE]

Don’t Bandage a Sore Eye.

Health. The custom, prevalent among physicians as well as the laity, of tightly bandaging or tying up the eye as soon as it becomes inflamed or sore is a bad one. The effect upon the eye is bad. It precludes the free access and beneficial effects of the cool air, and at the same time prevents or greatly retards the free egress of hot tears and morbid secretions of the inflamed conjunctiva or cornea, or both. In those cases, too, where a foreign substance has got into .the eye the bandage ( which is usually popped on the first thing) presses the lids more closely against the ball and thus increases the pain and discomfort by augmenting the lacerations caused by the foreign body. This can not fail to be harmful. In those cases where the light is painful it is my habit to adjust over, the organ a neatly fitting shade, which, while it excludes the light, allows the free access of air.