Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-04-25
Take Care OF Your Eyes.

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n great majOrity-it is our laughably
;. painful duty to recommend ladies Il
1 have as few mirrors and other lOOkiDs
e glasses, gilt picture frames and mould.
e ings, bright eOlored curtains, and highly
. polished furniture in their drawing
. rooms as possible; and what they mus,
have should be SO placed as not to allow
bright lights to be thrown upon them.
Highly cOlored curtains are additionally
injurious when the windows are open,
so that various brilliant aud dazzling
colors are flung about the room by the
incoming breeze. A very bright carpet
is very injurious thing, and when
combined with bright painted ceiling.
madness. These things may be a
merry life for the eyes, but they are a
short one. A rich patterned, sober
toned carpet. and a soft sky-gray or
stone colored ceiling are my own private
fancy. The almost invariable white
wash of the British ceiling would be a
constant injury but for the grave fact
that the British isles are not Overbur-
dened with sunlight. But whether
reading. writing. working, or in any
other way, it should always be done
with an oblique light, and never with
horizontal light. AS to the use of 10
tiOns, several prescriptions are given
in the little book we commenced with.
as well as in other works, but forbear
to transcribe any of them, excellent as
they no doubt would be, because q To-
tiOn too strong, or too frequently ap-
piled, or not exactly the proper lotion
for special case or individual peeuli-
arity, might do far more harm than
good. unless used under professional
supervision. The only exception is
that of pure water. In cases of much
Inflammation, OF difficulty of opening
the eyelids in the morning, the water
should be warm. and it may be mixed
with warm milk; but in nearly all other
cases the water should be cold. All
those who have been engaged in read
ing or writing during several hours at a
stretch, and especially at night, should
carefully battle the eyes with cold wa
tar before going to bed. and the first
thing in the mornings ablutions. "All
artisans who work at a blazing fire
ought often to wash their eyes with
cold pure water; and so should all those
who work In wool, particularly carders
and spinners, and all those employed
in woolen and cotton manufactures,
&c.; for the fine dust almost impre-
ceptible, it may be called, which such
works disperse, often produces cataracts
obstinate infiammations. swelled eye
lids" &c. l once lived, during weeks
at time, on the banks of an ophthal
mic river in the interior of Australia,
and numbers of settlers and shepherds,
and bushmen and diggers were afflicted
every summer and autumn with sore
eyes-so so. in some cases that you
might have thought they would never
open them again. One day squatuer
who owned a sheep station thereabOuts
rode up from Melbourne with a great
air. He was a "swell-squatter,' who
only now and then came to visit his
snug little farm on the river to "seo
how his stock got on.n / asked his ad-
vice for the sore eyes of his shepherds |
and others. "Ir serves them right :"
said he. II never have these sore eyes |
and you, sir, will never have sore eyes. |
No gentleman ever has" Not exactly |
perceiying the nice distinction in this |
matter, demurred. sit is a nice dis |
tinction," said he; it is just that. You,
no doubt, often wash your eyes with |
cold water. Those fellows never do" |
There was, no doubt, much reason in |
this, but something else was the cause. !
Beside the dirtiness of neglecting the |
hot sand and dust in the eyes, flies |
often rushed into them, and were not |
soon or easily cleared out; there was, |
moreover, q very small river fly, who |
either bit or stung, and Inflammation |
very speedily set in. l shonld have |
been very thankful at that time for the |
sake of others (my horse included), as |
well as myself, to have received the |
following advice: Whenever a fly or |
other insect, small flying seed, quick |
lime, dust. or any other minute object, |
gets into the eye ii. e., under the eye
lid, "dO not adopt the common habit |
of rubbing, or even of washing with |
water, but gently raise. or get gentle
hand to raise for you, the eyeiid, and
bend the head forward. In keeping
thus the eyelid elevated, and the eye |
quiescent for few moments, one feels
a flow of tears starting from the organ
which seldom fails to bring along with
it the cause of the pain, or at least to
carry it toward the corner of the eye
next to the nose, from whence it may
be removed by a fine handkerchief
folded to point, If this operation is
not sufficient then finger ought to be
passed frequently, vet gently, over the
eye toward the great caDthus (Or in
terror cOrner), by which means the sub
stance is made to descend toward the
lachrymal glands, from whence it may
be drawn by fine hair pencil" If the
irritating substance still remains, then
we are instructed that "the upper eye
lid must be taken as before, and kept |
elevated as much as possible, and the
eye being turned toward the nose, a
a very fine camers hair pencil. dipped
in cream, oil, or very fresh butter
without an atom of salt in 1t, remem-
ber), must be introduced between the
eyelid and the body of the eye. begin
ming at the exterior corner and ending
at the interior corner" If the very
fine hair pencil is not successful, you
will be almost certain to succeed with |
one rather larger. Should all these eff
forts fail, which is extremely unlikely
if they are properly performed, do not
set to work rubbing or washing the eye,
as you must obtain professional assist
ance. Be sure to bathe the eye fire.
quently in cold water as soon as, and |
for some time after, the irritating sub
stance has been extracted.-Fra-er's |
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