Should nothing be found under the lower
lid, you must look under the upper one.
Seat the person on a chair, and stand behind
him ; then, with his head leaning back,
hold a lead-pencil or pen -holder in the right
hand, and, drawing out the upper lid by its
lashes, the patient looking downward, you
lay the pencil along the lid and turn the
latter up over the pencil. It is not difiicult,
with a little confidence, to do this with a
finger instead of a pencil, and standing in
front of the patient. While the lid is turned
up, look closely to find the intruding parti-
cle, and remove it with a brush or a hand-
kerchief, as above described. The eyes
must then be kept at rest, closed for a while,
to get over the disturbance; otherwise
a troublesome inflammation may result.
Quite often, when there has been a particle
in the eye, but it has been rubbed out, there
will still be left 2i feeling, exactly as if it was
still there. When this is the case, a careful
examination showing it to be so, the irrita-
tion will gradually disappear, if the eyes are
kept quiet.
Pieces of stone or iron sometimes fly into
the eyes and lodge in the front of the ball.
Their removal will require surgical skill. A
powerful magnet may assist in getting out a
fragment of steel or iron from the eye.
After all, to get a movable particle out of
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one's eye, the best way in most cases will
be for the person to open both eyes in a
basin of clean cold water ; moving the head
once or twice from side to side whilfe they
are open, so as to wash the particle out of the
eye.
Fainting. — One who faints, falls, unless
held up, as when standing or sitting up in a
crowded place. But not every fall is faint-
ing. It may be an epileptic fit ; but then
the patient is convulsed ; that is, his limbs,
and perhaps the muscles of his face, jerk.
There is a modified form of epilep'tic attack,
not common, in which the sufferer lies still ;
in that, however, the pulse is not so weak
as in syncope or fainting.
One attacked with apoplexy falls ; but
his flushed (or at least not pale) face, warm
or hot head, slow and full pulse, and slow,
snoring breathing, make the case clear. An
intoxicated person, or one stupefied with
opium, may be found lying unconscious.
The odor of liquor in the former, and the
contracted pupils of the eyes of the latter,
usually serve for distinctions. (Odor of
liquor on the breath, however, does not
prove that the person may not have apo-
plexy as well as intoxication.)
In a faint, the face is pale, the forehead
cool or cold, the pulse absent or extremely
weak, the breathing noiseless and feeble.
Once in a while we meet with mixed
attacks ; almost always in those whose
hearts have undergone some degenerative
change ; in which there is a partial stupor,
perhaps with snoring breathing, along with
the other signs of fainting. Such an attack
differs from apoplexy in that it soon passes
off, and leaves no palsy after it. But such
spells are comparatively rare.
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
Should nothing be found under the lower lid, you must look under the upper one. Seat the person on a chair, and stand behind him ; then, with his head leaning back, hold a lead-pencil or pen -holder in the right hand, and, drawing out the upper lid by its lashes, the patient looking downward, you lay the pencil along the lid and turn the latter up over the pencil. It is not difficult, with a little confidence, to do this with a finger instead of a pencil, and standing in front of the patient. While the lid is turned up, look closely to find the intruding particle, and remove it with a brush or a handkerchief, as above described. The eyes must then be kept at rest, closed for a while, to get over the disturbance; otherwise a troublesome inflammation may result. Quite often, when there has been a particle in the eye, but it has been rubbed out, there will still be left a feeling, exactly as if it was still there. When this is the case, a careful examination showing it to be so, the irritation will gradually disappear, if the eyes are kept quiet.
Pieces of stone or iron sometimes fly into the eyes and lodge in the front of the ball. Their removal will require surgical skill. A powerful magnet may assist in getting out a fragment of steel or iron from the eye.
After all, to get a movable particle out of
one's eye, the best way in most cases will be for the person to open both eyes in a basin of clean cold water ; moving the head once or twice from side to side whilfe they are open, so as to wash the particle out of the eye.
Fainting. — One who faints, falls, unless held up, as when standing or sitting up in a crowded place. But not every fall is fainting. It may be an epileptic fit ; but then the patient is convulsed ; that is, his limbs, and perhaps the muscles of his face, jerk. There is a modified form of epilep'tic attack, not common, in which the sufferer lies still ; in that, however, the pulse is not so weak as in syncope or fainting.
One attacked with apoplexy falls ; but his flushed (or at least not pale) face, warm or hot head, slow and full pulse, and slow, snoring breathing, make the case clear. An intoxicated person, or one stupefied with opium, may be found lying unconscious. The odor of liquor in the former, and the contracted pupils of the eyes of the latter, usually serve for distinctions. (Odor of liquor on the breath, however, does not prove that the person may not have apoplexy as well as intoxication.)
In a faint, the face is pale, the forehead cool or cold, the pulse absent or extremely weak, the breathing noiseless and feeble. Once in a while we meet with mixed attacks ; almost always in those whose hearts have undergone some degenerative change ; in which there is a partial stupor, perhaps with snoring breathing, along with the other signs of fainting. Such an attack differs from apoplexy in that it soon passes off, and leaves no palsy after it. But such spells are comparatively rare.