, 1880-11-28

| N1TS. Il. y. lShanl Will give reception Tues
The Gaiety Club will give theI second re
ception at the Clifton House Friday evening
| THE FEMININE EYE.
4 MYSTERIOUS ALMEST-CAusE AND CURE
Ever since the eminent DR.. Dalton discoy
| cred coior-blindness, the attention Of til,
scientists to the structure and troubles 0
| the human eye has been doubled, and man,
| interesting results have followed. The mos
| Important revelation yet made in this branch
| of mcdical rescurcl1, however, was that form
| ing the basis Of a paper to the New York
| Academy Of Sciences on the sd Of las
month by B. Potipllar Tibbits, u. A., d
young student of medicine at Bellevue Col.
lege.
For several years it had been noticed thai
peculiar and inexpiicable eye malady was
becoming prevalent among ladies in fashion
able life, giving rise to troubles which were
often of all alarming nature. Like most dan
gerous diseases, it was exceed mgly insidious
in its approaches, victim perceiy.
ing no symptoms until she had become
a chronic victim. Outwardly, the disease
manifested itself rs follows: Suddenly, and
without warning, the eyes Of the fair sufferer
would so lose the power Of sight for several
seconds or even minutes as to be totally un-
able to recognize 4 gentleman acquaintance
at even the most trivial distances. Stimuli
tancously there would appear a peculiar
r1gidity Of the spinal column, and general
GOODNESS and lack of mobility in the facial
expression; this lamentable condition con-
tinuing until the gentleman acquaintance
had sauntered by in state Of cold perspira-
ton and incoherence, when her vision would
be instantly restored, her spinal intlexibiiity
would vanish, and the austerity Of her express
sion disappear, so that the suffering lady
would be able to recognize, and most cor
daily smile at and bow to, another gentleman
acquaintance a block away and clear across
the Street
:, To close observers it was noticeable that
the raVages Of this distressing COMPLAINT
were mainly confined 10 you,ig indies Of
great parsohal beauty, and that p1alnness Of
feature usually rendered a girl secure from
lts approach. Also was it remarked that the
disease was not Of lifelong duration, but,
beginning to manifest itself ut 1Gor so, would
reach the climax of its virulence at 10 Or
g, and then, gradually subslde in the
frequency and Intensity Of the paroxysms
until the age Of ~ or 37. l,s4d been reached,
when it GENERALLY disappeared altogether.
Prot Dalton, after several years close OBJ
servation, attributed the phenomena to
a VARIETY OF coLo1,-BL1SDSEss:
which, 1t is we'll known, is the lack Of power
~ the 9ptc nay nf1ye to perceive certa1n com
sufferer from this new nlaiady,'' be said in
an admirable paper to the Smithsonian In-
stltute, - is certainly not complimentary to
me gentleman whom she fails to recognize,
ana, inducing change of hue upon his face,
This ingenious explanation, however, did !
not explain the spinal symptoms already al |
luded to, nor the general blankness of the |
face which usually marked the crisis of the !
attaek, t and SO, although respected, it served |
vesti$ation;; En- 1871, Prof. Siilin,an, of Yale,
his brilliant report upon tile
emma Nine with paper to the Boston Ly-
;eum, IN which he held that the secret Of the
iisease lay in the sudden reversal Of certain
.heElno-clectrical currents known to exist in
ne human body. sit is we'll kno,yn.'' he
said, that electrified bo,iics Of opposit !
1o,aIlty 1o,:nry act upon each other by induction,
levei9plng powerful currents. In mani
$ certain that while the lady is very
.old and calm, the gentleman is us1,aliy
very hot and excited--which conditions
!, ndlcate ns most clearly the thermo-electric
,.1attcter ,a... 81 F. OF the phenomenon. Searching
a'' low m ior the primal cause, we naturally rel.
on that the electrical condition Of the gen
!eLnan must somehow have become of onuo-
y : polarity to thnt Of the lady; which fact
osc 10 scrutiny into the previous history Of
asses out of ten. as to the pathologicaI
y1nptons, what is more natural than IN
race the .glittering tlxcdness OF the jaf1y's
yes 1ne rlglLity Of her spine, and the cl1iI1i-
ess q eI expression to tile effect Of the
e1isitive muscles Of those parts? The gen
leihah, also, III his sudden redness, and wild
", and air Of suppressed evaporation.
Iiows, to my mind, simply the effects Of the
a!S Tb;t poweIini thermal development"
. . nRl2natlon was received with the utmost | ,
e!lgllt by sayants OF every school, Dr.. Daj- ,
IN was crushed and forgotten, and the Royal
'or eul9n52g.cai n2gI Society Of Berlin conferred
III Sigma Sigma as slight token of their
ppreci2ti0u. ~'A
Still, though the so-called disease was !
.eugn sou sit 70 DC compIehended, no remedy had
~ ~ o'sGoVere:i' and It gradually spread from
slnie NEARLY every metropolis in the Union.
lying all attempts at treatment H. / t
.lly It prevailed to such an extent that no !
VINO was not absolutely certain Of
axe a move towards his hat upon meeting {
dy acquaintance, without first being as-
rea oy sunny smile and graceful cTrya- a
re ot her spine that their mutual thermo- u
,cple currents we're all right and that there t
insing ~ n.y.; 9a q paroxysm of the 1naiatly.
~. 1lopi1S' paper has reyolutionized the al
cores OF both the Dalton and Silliman T. T.
lools; not only Indicating the exact nature T.
Tue disease, for disease It is, but ~ ns
ITS TREATMENT AND CURE.
cordlng to his theory the evil is primarily G
'chologieal, and secondarily electrical. "
says: The gray matter in the Iady's OF
IN having undergone recent change, ow- h,
70 the transmission through the nervous
ng1lons OF the eye or ear Of some inteIif- | r.,
we concerning gentleman, definit res I.
ltlon III his regard is developed, living dor %
ny unit! opportunity calls it into action -,
intelligence which may cause this is 80 III
led In different cases that no typical In OF
nee can be cited Opportunity being pre- N N
ted :N by MS appearance, the dormant reso- 50 50
lon {, springs into yigor, exciting the PPl
ot1lla oblongata, paralyzinR the motor Ut
scies OF the eye, causing partial opls-
tpnos y or The spine, and so relaxing the 81
lai muscles as to impart the characteristic 81
zaulty to the countenance I'll
I, Theory of Prof. Silliman that the body fs
ny unconscious at the time, owing to the pr
;siysis, 10 not consider correct In the cl<
adence or the attack, the fair sufferer Is II
IN heard to murnur *horriu thinxr or
70 similar expression, showing at least mi
Tia! consciousness OF what transnired m
"a me gentleman passed, 1, Il, The ID