The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-07-03
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That's fine OF you SO you believe
that Of me-"
"Why not7 must You're mar.
ricd That's outside my province
now. Nv. Just come 10 tell you now
that ] don't think wo ought 10 wait
any longer about your eyes Wen
Try this afternoon. In our little hos.
pitnl here. wish my old preceptor.
were here; but Annie viii help me all
nh. can. and III do my very best"
I'm quite ready"
Il don't know whether or not 10
be glad that you have no curiosity
about your own case he s.aid pres.
entity.
That only shows you how helpless
] am. have no choice. l have lost
my own Identity"
Didn't your doctor back In cievo.
land tell you anything about what
~aa wrong with your eyes7"
Tie said at first II was retinni.
then he said IL was iritis lie didn't
like TO answer any auestlons.-
The old way--addIng 90 all the old
mummerien OF the most mummlng Of
all professions That dates
back 90 bats wings and toads' llyers
~ cure fcr the spleen. But AZ isast
and a, Las, he said II was iritis7"
Yes. lie told me that I might
gradually lose one cy~-which was
true. lie thought tho trouble might
advance TO the other eye. IL came
out that way. lie must have known"
Perhaps he knew part" said Doc.
tor Barnes. You had some PALM"
'rnbearahl- pain part Of the time
over tho eyes. In the front OF the
had"
Didn't your doctor tell you what
lritls mcantF"
NO. suppose Inflammation OF
the ey-s--the iris"
Precisely. Now, Just because
you're q woman OF intelligence. I'm
going 10 try TO give you a little ex.
PLANTATION Of your trouble. so you will
know what YOU are facing"
Il wish you would"
Very well Now. you mus, think
OF the eye M a lens. bu, ono mad.
Up Of cells. of tissues. II can know
inflammation. "A a result OF many
inflammations there II what we call
an exudauon--a loud passes from
tho tissues This may be thin or
serumiike. or u may hc heavier.
something like granuls tons The
tissues ar~ w~ak-they cxudc some
thing In their distress. in their mt.
temp, 20 correct this condition when
they have b~cn lnflamed
Tho pupil Of your eye II the ar
srtur-. the stop os tho lens. That
N the hoi. thru which tho light
passes. Around u lie the TISSUES Of
tho iris. In the back OF the eye IL
the rctina. which acts as a film for
tho eyes picture.
Now. II Was tho part Of the eye
around that oI'~ning which got in.
famed and began 10 exude. Such
inflammation may come from eye.
strain. sometimes from glare nks fur.
nnc. heat. or the reflection Of the
sun on the snow. Snow blindness In
sometimes painful. Why7 friua
In any case. a chronic irritation
cam. Into your case some time. Little
by little there came a heavy exuda.
ton around the edges OF the infiamed
lrss I; was ~ heavy that we call
II a plastic emulation. Now. tina;
vas what Was the technical trouble
u your eye-piastie erudaiion-
'-Thl, emulation. or growth. az we
r,lshi call IT, ~enN on from the edges
OF the iris until it met IN the middle
OF tho pupil, Then there was spread
across the aperture OF your lens
an opaque xranulated curtain thru
which ilghf could not pass. There.
fore you could not see. The plastic
oxidation had done IL evil work az
the result OF tn. iritis that ~ TO say,
of the suff.rtnEs OF tho mis-"
Il begin To undrrs;a nd. said Mary
Care. That covers what seemed TO
happen
1T covers n precisely. for that Is
precisely what did happen. IL was
not cataract ! knew. or thought
knew. that II WAS not from retinal
scars due 20 Inflammation in the
back Of the eye. II was Just a fil.
ing up Of the opening OF the eye.
so know you Lost sight in that
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