The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-09-18

Se<lIcss PrGEnee Them.
several thousand people in the
United .stnte5 are wearing glass eyes.
mi. III tie proportion OF Increase Of In
jur.es 20 the eye continue constant. in
zen yea.s there VIII he 10000 wearers
Of eyes n this country
"a GyI--5 splinter in the air, speck
81. So 81 fro.-. some big building under
construction. a chip Of stone from the
stonecutters block. may lodge in the
eye of the passer5y and cause endless
romplIca tons. The perforation OF the
outer covering OF the eye by foreign
bulies was one OF the chief causes for
taKin-. the eye out-enucleatiOn, MS 1t
is c.;ies1 -uatil the Development of \
ray surgery, which has saved the sight
Of r..l.l-.- ~ - by locating the foreign
body in TING for its safe removal.
one OF the t.o..mOner diseases follow
ing the lo..-1nent OF a foreign body in
the owe and generally requiring emu
,leation IS sympathetic ophthclInia, an
aYpctiOn OF the unframed eye, which
Is marked at first by a dread of the
tight. pain and gradually increasing
iimness of Vision. Before the sight in
both eyes Is irretrieyahly lost the ex-
citing eye has to be removed. Other
common diseases whose removal often
!spends upon enucleatlon are sarcoma,
or malignant, tumor. and absolute glau-
coma, or hard eyebail."
Eye surgery, the most delicate nnd
intricate in the scope OF medical
tcience, is making enormous progress
.o5yard complete surety in its opera
ions. 1t IS doing stunts that our
surgeon grandfathers would regard
With amaze.cent. But one much adj
Tertised reat it has never accom-
olished, despite numberIess announce
nents in the press to that effect, and
hat is laying out the cyebails on the
.heek while they were vGriously op-
Grated upon and replacing them with
Iuccess.
4 patient at the New York Pose
3radunte Medical school and hospital
.ecently underwent n rather difficult
1peration on one eye, and to make -his
ytory more thrilling he described with
much dramatic colorfnG how there
were forty 10 fifty docthors sitting In
aows and rows above me. like It was at
he theaytc-, al thin docthors being
students from iverywheres in this
country and from the ould country,
m some hnythens from Japan, an
vans from England, an, well, they
was there from all over the world, just
% learn of me what to do whin they
wint back to their own patients-an
whln the surgeon who was dom all the
business, the Big Bug. name, in the
,ospItaI-why. people would pay him
thousand dollars to have him opyrate
N their eyes, and didn't have to pay
i'm n cint-why, whin he TUX out my
ives nm thcy was hanging on my
checks like you read about, all thin
!elIers thought it was so great that
thcy came down to look at thin close,
IN some of thin TUX pictyure OF me
is / lay there with my eyes out; an II
re don't believe 1t, ye can ask to see
van OF thin pictyures." This thrilling
experience found its way into print,
,ut II receives the mark of absolute
Iiscredit from the big Bug" himself
Who forcibIy remarked that "all these
,eports about removing the eyes and
hon replacing them are pure and utter
,onsensc. The eye cannot be lifted
,ne-eghth of IN inch from its socket
without destroying the sight forever.
So when the eye comes out 1t Is out
Tor all time, and only a glass eye can
DC substituted, and in this way tho
work of the hospital Is supplemented
with the achievement of the optical
protheticinn. He Is the last resort OF
she eyeIess one, and, although surgery
slaves him or as long as possible, an
artificial pupil, movable In accordance
with the other eye II certain muscles
n the socket are left intact, and so
true to life that the keenest inspection
often fails to detect it, is a boon to the
Ieformity. thus removing an obstacle
to his success In life
OnIv three houses In the United
States make glass eyes, and they are
located in New York city. A large num-
her Of false orbs, however, of an in
eerior quality come from Thuringia, In
the heart of the romantic Black forest
81 Germany. Here Is the home of the
industry, and from here come most OF
the glass eyes that the regular opticinn
keeps in stock. The American maker.
on the other hand, Is exporting his finer
goods to every quarter of the earth
one house alone making 10000 year
Tor export. or the other eye making
Aouses in the world there are Ave IL
Paris three in London and TWO IN Hir-
ningham. so that there Is an Industry
which 1t may be readily seen, is not
0vercrowded.
Eye making was prHcticed In the
lays or Tie Oldest civilization. There
: authentic record of HrtiiiciHi eyes
lat were made In the reign Of Pt2lemy
r., who ErSsped the scepter in Egypt
the fourth century before Christ.
Eyes ve.e III Erst nHsc OF uctat
either copper or gold or silver, shaped
INTO hat disks ana painted to Initiate
nature In the days OF Ambrose Pare.
he celebrated French surgeon Of TIE
iixteenth cen etsy. n pointed rearesertF-
ion OF the whole c:.e rud e.c!i4s wss
astened In front OF tiie orbit anl held