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Eye Conditions
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"Çld _lrs. K--'s daughter rang
aaa up to come and see lier mother,
who. had an inflamed eye..
When I got there, Mrs. K
I Wff about 80, was very indignant
tftgi I should have bees sent For
"I've doctored myself all my life,
sad X can manage now," she said.
"That is silly, mother," said her
daughter. "You kn<jw bow much
you depend on your eyes, you do sn
asuqh fancywork and reading. You
can't affcrd to let anything happen
tn your sight."
Actually Mrs. K-s-'s eye con-
dition, though it looked nasty, was
quite a harmless ons. The whole
of the white of the eye was stained
a bright red, because, as I explained
to her, she had had a sub-con-?
iúnetival haemorrhage-that is, a
nasaiorrhage under the conjunctiva,
the "skin" covering tfeg ball of the
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pnly one eye was affected, and
toe old lady was suffering no pain,
and was lndumant because her
daughter had kept the room dark-
ened and made her wear an eye
lUde till I came.
"Z)ces that nuga'«he hgj got high
blood pressure, god that is why a
bjppd vessel has bunt? lt migftt
nave burst In her brain, then,
mightn't it?" asked the^auahlir.
who is Inclined to fear the worst.
"Ho," X repqgd. "We don't know
just what makes one oj thjsg little
arteries burst; as often sj not they
nippen in perfectly netful people
With, normal flood pressure, like
your mother.'«
"4nd how lops have X to stay in
g, dark room eat must not use my
e*e7''asked ftn,
use your eyes or to be ia the light,'*
* ^s??'told you so--" soe be-
gan to say to per daughter.
"Tour daughter wu quite right
to take precautions unta the trew*
i had been diagnosed. Eyes are too
I precious to risk." Z said.
I "She ' was, quite naturally, con»
fusing your condition with the very
I painful and serious eye trouble she
had herself last year-iritis, it wits
in her case. She had a red èyt, top,
though of a different type alte»
sether; and the redness was in a
different position; encircling the
iris, which a lay person could nut
be expected te dufsrentiate,
"Iritis is an extremely painful
condition and calls for special treat-
ment, and unless thia is given the
eyesight is likely to be pernuheatly
damaged."
treatment In any cases of inflamed
eye*, than?" asked Mri. k;--^.
"In ordinary conjunctivitis, the
conyaonett type of inf¡¿inme£on,
wann bathing gaqerfily alyss se?
lief, but the thing is to lie quita
sure that lt la ordinary eonjuncUr
vitia you «re dealing with. The
causes of that are many and var
t^o3Vafew^,,,^Wl
"The safest thing is to say that if
* '»ed' sys dees net steer up" 1« 14
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