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Home Medical and Vet Remedies, as Recommended by 19th and 20th century Doctors and Vets! |
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Home Medical and Vet Remedies, as Recommended by 19th and 20th century Doctors and Vets! |
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Injuries of the EyeIt is therefore important to ascertain, as soon as possible after an injury, whether any particle has lodged within the eye and is still present there. The symptoms which indicate that some such particle has lodged within the eye, are : Severe and continued pain in the eye, which resists the ordinary remedies and is not proportioned to the apparent injury done. An increase in the amount of inflammation excited by the original injury. A gradual impairment of the sight in the affected eye. It has been said on a previous page, and can only be repeated with emphasis here, that when a foreign particle remains in an eye the patient is in danger of losing, not only the injured, but also the sound eye. Whenever the injured eye shows signs of inflammation, when it secretes mucus freely and causes the patient considerable pain, no time should be lost in presenting the matter to a competent surgeon. For if the trouble be allowed to continue indefinitely, until the pain and irritation become so severe that the patient can no longer bear it, it will probably be too late to save either the injured eye or even the sound one. Injuries from Gunpowder, Small Shot, Percussion Caps, Toy Pistols, Etc.-The most frequent injuries of the eye, which are brought to the surgeon in ordinary practice, result from contact with the eye of some of the missiles just mentioned. In this country the Fourth of July is a harvest time for eye surgeons as well as for others. The toy pistols which have become so popular among boys, occasion frequent injuries to the eyes. For not only may fragments of the different missiles be driven into the eye, but the simple explosion in the immediate vicinity of this organ may occasion damage by detaching some of its tissues. The explosion of gunpowder near the eye may affect this organ in different ways. The simple concussion may so shake the eye as to derange its parts and impair sight. The surface of the eye may be burned or scorched by the flame so that serious disease and deformity result. Grains of the powder may be driven with force sufficient to penetrate the coats of the eye and lodge in its interior. Treatment.-All loose powder should be at once washed out of the eye in the following way : The lids are separated and raised from the globe so far as may be gently done ; then a fine stream of water is squirted over the eye and under the lids from a small syringe. The front of the eye-the cornea - will probably be studded with grains of powder which stick so tightly in the tissue that they cannot be removed by the stream of water. These can be detached by the dextrous use of a fine needle or other instrument prepared for the purpose ; but this should always be left for the experienced surgeon and never undertaken by any one who is not a physician, since much injury can be done by unskilled hands. After the eye has been thoroughly washed, a few drops of sweet oil or a little vaseline should be inserted between the lids, and a soft cloth saturated with cold water may be kept applied to the eye, fresh water being used as often as is necessary to keep the part cool. But first, if you want to come back to this web site again, just add it to your bookmarks or favorites now! Then you'll find it easy! Also, please consider sharing our helpful website with your online friends.
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