Health knowledge : a thorough and concise knowledge of the prevention, causes, and treatments of disease, simplified for home use . is generally held that the inflammation is due to organismswhich enter by the wound, cause inflammation of the damagedeye, and then infect the other eye either by the lymph spaceswhich connect the two, or indirectly through the blood. For thisreason all eyes that have received severe penetrating wounds,and that are sightless, inflamed, and painful, should be removedto avoid the risk of sympathetic trouble in the sound eye. Symptoms.—The most marked symptom is pain
Health knowledge : a thorough and concise knowledge of the prevention, causes, and treatments of disease, simplified for home use . is generally held that the inflammation is due to organismswhich enter by the wound, cause inflammation of the damagedeye, and then infect the other eye either by the lymph spaceswhich connect the two, or indirectly through the blood. For thisreason all eyes that have received severe penetrating wounds,and that are sightless, inflamed, and painful, should be removedto avoid the risk of sympathetic trouble in the sound eye. Symptoms.—The most marked symptom is pain situatedeither in the eye itself or more commonly in the spot indicated by the shaded area in the accompanyingillustration. There may be much wateringof the eye, and bright light always occa-sions more or less distress. The eye is redaround the margin of the iris, and for thisreason the condition is often taken for in-flammation of the conjunctiva covering theeye—a much more trivial condition. Dim-ness of vision is usually present, and, par-ticularly in rheumatic cases, may for longbe the only sign. When one looks at the. IKITIS—SQUINTING 1123 eye closely, one notices that the iris has lost its luster, and thepupil is generally narrow. If the affected person has sufferedpreviously from iritis, the iris may be adherent behind to thelens of the eye, so that the pupil loses its usual circular outline,and ceases to vary in size in different lights. An acute attack ofiritis generally lasts some weeks even when treated, and if thecondition be not carefully treated, the sight may be much im-paired or lost as the result of opacities in the lens or cornea, de-posit of inflammatory matter in the pupil, and the like. Treatment.—Eest of the eye is of the highest effect this, all reading and other near work, even with theunaffected eye, must be given up. To prevent the eye frombeing used, the following solution should be dropped into it: ]^ Atropine two grains Water o
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