The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-06-27
BEAUTY RESTORED.

An Art that is Invaluable to the Unicrtanate Man
Who Has Los' an Eye
When 8 surgeon is forced to the last
alternative of taking out an eye, 1t is
desirable that he should leave as much
of the ball as possible Makers of arti-
ficial eyes call this tine stump; and If it
Is large it moves tine artificial eye back
and forth 90 naturally that the change is
not perceptible except to very close
observer whose attention has previously
been called 10 the misfortune of the
wearex.
When the patient finst goes to the
maker of artificial syes, the latter CARE
fully studies the cavity, the size and
shape of the stump, and the size of the
eyelids measured on the inner surface.
These measurements differ greatly in
different persons, and are very irregular
in the same person 40 that in NO case
can the porcelain be made symmetrically
perfect. a sphere OF porcelain is never
used. The new eye is always hollow on
the inner side. The extent of this con
cavity depends npDn the .size OF the
stump, which the porcelain must fl
accurately. but without hugging. There
are NO rules of measurement for making
COED fit, and for this reason q maker
of artificial eyes should be an artist.
After the eyemake, has given attention
to the essentials spoken of above he next
studies the good eye OF his patient He
estimates tine diameter of the pupil in
ordinary light, and clossiy examines the
eolors of the iris. These cOlors are never
"iaid on" by nature in precisely the
same way. Even in the case of two
persobs whose eyes have precisely the
same shade of color, the effect ia pro
dueed by different arrangements OF
natures greens, grays and Dimes. The
eyemaker cloasiy examines these pecus
liarities and then he iis ready TO go into
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porcelain.
Some eyemakers claim peculiar ex-
eellenees for the material they use. If
clear annesled glass could be u-ed, an
artificial eye might last for many years;
but in order to produce what they desire,
certain oxides must be used. These
oxides are attacked by the saline hnmois
Of the eye, and the surface becomes
rsngh. This makes 1t necessary to re-
place an Artificial eye after il has been
worn about eighteen months. The best
eyes under the. most favorable eircnm.
stances cannot be worn mere than three
years. The material of the eyemaker ID
drawn for him at a glass manufacturer
into tubes about one inch and
q half in circumference He re-
draws q tube until it is 9
little smaller than lead pencil. Eext
he blows O bulb at one end OF thesize o
the SQUAD eyeball in his patron, coutfiv.
ing to make 1t slightly oval TO initiate
the natural curvature of the eye. A
the place where the ifis and pupil are Il
be he hattens the little sphere and in tbs
centre of me fat surface he applies 1
| circnlar patch of black pigment. This i,
1.-the pnpil. Next follows q work of grea,
nieety. With indelihle cslors taken from
| . palette he initiates on the Hattenes
part of the sphere around the pupils tn,
Via which he has previously studded ii
the sound eye This having been dome
q soiseular piece 0f crystsl glass, fat Oh
one side and e0nsex GA the other, is lait
upon the pigments with It's fiat sid,
4 down. Hits fismly fastened in place b,
/ using its edge with Mhe porcelain witt
the aid ctaa blow pipe. Affair this deli
cate operation the front of the spher
! should oxactiy resemble the eonnd eyl