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INFLAMMATION OF THE EYES. 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



EYES. 



IF any inflammation, examine the eye first to see if any 

 hay-seed, bit of straw, or hay may be there; if so, take it 

 out and wash the eye with cold water, and the inflamma- 

 tion will subside. If not, and you can see nothing but 

 general inflammation, then wash with lead-water. To do 

 so properly use a small, clean sponge, be sure there is no 

 sand in it ; when saturated with the lead-water, squeeze the 

 sponge in the cup above the eye, the water will run into it 



AN EYE DISPLAYING THE RAVAGES 

 OF SPECIFIC OPHTHALMIA. 



TERMINATION TO SPECIFIC 

 OPHTHALMIA. 



from the corners, and cool it nicely. If the inflammation 

 continues to exist, bleed in the vein beneath the eye : it 

 is a small vein, but by holding your finger on it, to stop 

 the regular course of the blood, it will swell so that with a 

 small, sharp blade, by sticking it upwards so as not to cut 

 through it, you will get a reasonable amount of blood ; 

 and the probability is, unless something serious is the 

 matter, that the eye will get well. For further informa- 

 tion on this subject I refer my reader to Mayhew's "Illus- 



