La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1906-09-22
GLASS EYES COMMON
ARTIFICIAL OPTICS ARE WORN ~
MANY THOUSANDS.


Dtoteo hRo0oce Ines.
Several thousand people in the
United States are wearing glass eyes,
and. If the proportion of increase of in
juries to the eye continue constant, in
ten years there will be 10000 wearers
OF glass eyes in this country.
A flying splinter in the air, a speck
Of steel from some big building under
construction. a chip OF stone from the
stonecutter's block. may lodge In the
eye of the passerby and cause endless
complications. The perforation of the
outer covering of the eye by foreign
bodies was Que of the chief causes for
taking the eye Out-enucleation, as II
is called-until the development Of Y
ray surgery. which has saved the sight
Of many eyes by locating the foreign
body In time for its safe removal.
One OF the commoner diseases follow
Ing the lodgment OF . foreign body In
the eye and generally requiring emu
cleatiOn Is sympathetic ophthalmia, an
affection of the unharmed eye, which
is marked at first by a dread Of the
light, pain and gradually increasing
dimness OF vision. Before the sight In
both eyes Is irretrievably lost the ex-
citing eye has to he removed. Other
common diseases whose removal often
depends upon enucieation are sarcoma.
or malignant tumor, and absolute glau-
coma, or hard eyebali."
Eye surgery. the most delicate and
intricate In the scope Of medical
science, is making enormous progress
toward complete surety In its opera
tons. II is doing stunts" that our
surgeon grandfathers would regard
with amaxement. But one much ad-
vertised feat II has never accom-
piished, despite numberless announce
nents in the press 10 that eject, and
that il laying out the eyebalis on the
cheek while they were variously op-
Grated upon and replacing them with
success.
A patient at the New York Post
Graduate Medical school and hospital
recently underwent a rather dimcult
operation on one eye. and TO make his
story more thrilling be described with
much dramatic coiosing how there
were forty to nifty docthors sitting In
pDws and rows above me. like II was at
the theayter. oil thin docthors being
students from iveFywheres in this
country and from the ouh country.
an some haythens from Japan. an
vans from England. an. well. they
was there from all over the world. Just
to Iearn Oh me what to do whin they
wint back to their own patisnts-an'
Whin The sureeoa who was dOln' oil ths
b1ainess, the Big Bug. ] mane. In the
Aospital-why. people would pay him .
thousand dollars to have him opyrats
in their eyes. and I didn't have to pay
i'm . cint-why. whin be TUX cut my
eyes an they was hanging on my
cheeks like you read about, all thin
fellers thought IL was % great that
they came down to look at thin Close.
an some Of thin TUX . pictyuze of ne
a. I lay there with my eyes out; an II
ye don't believe n. ye can ash to 50
wan Of thin pictyures." This thrilling
experience found It's way into print,
but II receives the mark Of sbsolute
diarreiit from the Zig Bug himself.
Who forcibly remarked that all these
reports about removing The EYES al
then replacing them are pure and utter
nonsense. The eye cannot be lifted
Ooe-eighth OF an inch from its socket
without destroying the sight foseves."
10 when the eye comes 0ut n h out
for all time. and only . glass eye can
he substituted. and In this way the
WON OF the hospital is supplemented
with the achievement Of the optical
peothetician- He is the last resort q
the eyeless one. and, although surgery
staves him o6 - long % possible. an
sstiaciai pupil. movable In accordance
Win the other eye 10 certain nuscles
In the socket are left intact. and %
true TO life hat the keenest inspection
fsen fsils - detect u. 10 Q booa 10 the
defsenity. thus rsnsving an sbstseBe
- his success In Me.
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