The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-01-16
occupAr1oNAL EYE DISEASE.
of POisons Causes Serious
Troubles.

Many eyes are injured or lost from
disease contracted in certain occupations.
In some trades absorption OF poisons
| produce serious eve diseases. Among
these poisons are tobacco, alcohol, lead,
bisulfd Of carbon, nitrobenzol aniline
dyes, etc One Of the most dangerous
is alcohol Not the high grade grain
alcohol but the cheap wood or methyl
alcohol, sometimes masquerading under
the names Columbian spirits" "Coloni-
al spirits" or Manhattan spirits" This
poison il sometimes drunk by ignorant
people, and not infrequently causes
death and blindness. Even ten drops
have produced such results in suscep-
tible people. Turkish bath attendants
and masseurs sometimes use wood al
cohol with bad results, both to the rub
Der and the rubbed The inhaling of
wood alcohol in such trades as painting
and hat making not infrequently produc-
% blindness or fatal results. ID is used
as solvent for shellac and il used in
confined spaces Is very dangerous. In
a pencil factory, where wood alcohol
was used, roomful Of girl suffered
from serious disturbance of vision. which
passed away with the removal of the
cause. Wood alcohol under this or I'M
der any other name should not be manu-
featured or sold. II is too dangerous.
What is called deuatured alcohol is
iust as cheap and comparatively harm
less. Another vocational eye disturbance
n found where eyes are unduly exposed
% very bright lights, such a. blow
outs" or short circuits where the light
- sudden and intense. Such accidents !
may, By the OverpoWering influence on
the retina, produce poor sight or blind I
ness, partial or complete. for a variable 4
length 81 time Constant and intense 1
electric light produces retiual exhaus- 1
tion, and an excessive pupillary contrac- 4
ton, which secundariiY overWOrks the 4
muscles OF accommodation. and oooa-
sions great ocular fatigue. People working I
on polished surfaces such 4
a. glider. Netal polishers and glass
worker6 experience the same trouble 4
Factories that are over brilliantly illum-
mated hy incaudesccnt gas ana electric
igts are opt TO iumre the eyes. A. these
lights contain much violet aud ultra
violet rays, which produce az elect on
Do eye similar 10 SNOW Kindness.
These rays may also seriously affect I
.he eve st0keHs. h5ttlc-makers. and
lass blowers, whose eyes are coutiuu-
MS exposed 10 Intense beat and light
he vers apt 90 have catsracts and the
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ira affected Another kind of oeeupa-
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