. Dr. Evans' How to keep well; . n of the eyes reportable. Many states and some cities nowhave such laws, but it has not been found easy to enforce them. Since nitrateof silver solution is unstable, uneven, and rather undependable, he would havethe solution furnished, dated and ready for use, by the government. This isthe practice in many states. He especially advocates measures for the educa-tion of the public. PREVENTABLE BLINDNESS 115 Dr. Tivnen advocates education of the public and particularly of indi-viduals. He would labor to secure the cooperation of medical societies,mothers clubs, nu
. Dr. Evans' How to keep well; . n of the eyes reportable. Many states and some cities nowhave such laws, but it has not been found easy to enforce them. Since nitrateof silver solution is unstable, uneven, and rather undependable, he would havethe solution furnished, dated and ready for use, by the government. This isthe practice in many states. He especially advocates measures for the educa-tion of the public. PREVENTABLE BLINDNESS 115 Dr. Tivnen advocates education of the public and particularly of indi-viduals. He would labor to secure the cooperation of medical societies,mothers clubs, nurses, and individuals with the health departments to bringabout the education. In the meanwhile why not let each mother individually do her part ? Shecan see to it that her baby does not go blind. First, every mother should enter labor as free from infection as there is a way to guarantee the sight of the child even when the idealcondition of the mother is unattainable. She can understand the method. SUPERIOR RECTUS. CHOROID ^ OPTIC NERVE CHOROID INFERIOR RECTUS Fig. 57.—Diagrammatic Section of the Eyeball. There is little to it, and she can see that it is carried out in the case of herchild. Another cause of preventable blindness is trachoma. Trachoma is saidto have come from Egypt. Napoleon went to Egypt with an army for the purpose of capturing apyramid or some other white elephant. He got trachoma. Nearly everysoldier of his 32,000 got trachoma. When he returned to Europe this modernCleopatra refused to be left at home. From the armies it spread to the people. From the European peoples itspread to the LTnited States. Not only is it to be found everywhere in the congested quarters of ourgreat cities, but it has penetrated to the most inaccessible of our mountainpopulations. One of the great fights being made by McCormack in Kentuckyis against trachoma among the pure-blooded Americans of the Blue RidgeMountains. 116 THE EYE
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