Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-03-16
Care of the Ewes,

Glaring and glancing lights in the
sitting-room should be avoided. Look
ing.glasses, gilt picture-frames and
holdings, bright colored curtains and
highly-polished furniture" says an
English writer, should, as much as
| possible, be banished from our rooms.
A very bright carpet is also injurious
and SO is brightly.paintcd ceiling.
These things may be agreeable to look
upon, but they make sad work with the
eyes" After advising that reading,
writing, or working should be done
with an oblique light, and never with a
horizontal light, the English writer ad-
vises that the safest lotion for the eyes
is pure water. He says:
In Cases of much Inflammation, or diff
Guilty 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 it should be
cold.
All those who have been engaged in
reading or writing several hours at a
stretch, and especially at night, should
carefully bathe the eyes with cold water
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
wooden and cotton manufactures, etc. !;
for the fine dust, almost imperceptible,
it may be called, which such works dis
perse often produces catarac:s, OBJ sti-
nate inflammations, swelled eyelids, ETC.
The following advice may be of serv-
ice:
Whenever fly or other insect, a
small flying seed, quicklime, dust, or
any other minute object gets into the
eye Il. e., under the eyelid), do not
even of washing it with water, but
gently raise, or get gentle hand to
raise for you, the eyelid, and bend the
hand forward.
In keeping thus the eyelid elevated
and the eye quiescent for few mo-
ments, one feels 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 fine
handkerchief, folded to point.
If this operation is not sufficient, then
a finger ought to be passed frequently,
yet gently, over the eyelid, from the ex-
terror corner of the eye toward the great
canthus Tor interior corner), by which
means the substance is made to descend
toward the lachrymal glands, from
whence it may be drawn by fne-hair
pencil.
If the irritating substance still remains,
then the upper eyelid must be taken as
before, and kept elevated as much as
possible, and, the eye being then turned
toward the nose, a very fine camel's hair
pencil, dipped in cream, oil, or perfect,
ly fresh butter without an atom of salt
in it, remember), must be introduced
between the eyclid and the body OF
the eye, beginning at the exterior cor
ner and ending at the interior corner.
If the very fine hair pencil is not sue
cessful, you will be almost certain tc
succeed with one rather larger. Should
all these efforts 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
| ,so9'eSaifUO. Dv sure 10 DaCne the eye
frequently in cold water as soon as, anC
for some time after, the irritating sub
stance has been extracted.