Accidental injuries, their relief and immediate treatment : How to prevent accidents becoming more serious / [Sir James Cantlie].

  • Cantlie, James, Sir, 1851-1926.
Date:
1887
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Credit: Accidental injuries, their relief and immediate treatment : How to prevent accidents becoming more serious / [Sir James Cantlie]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    How to remove a Foreign Body from the Eye.— Do not rub tho part; you Avill only press the substance, if it be sharp and hard, into the eyeball, and thereby do much damage. Take hold of tho upper lid and pull it forwards, and at the same time push up the lower lid inwards beneath the upper; let both go and allow them to rearninge themselves ; the hair of the lower lid will brush the back of the upper lid, and may thus remove the foreign body. Do this once, twice, or thrice. This will usually remove the annoying smuts which tind their way into the eye in a rail- way carriage. Yon can do it to yovtrself or others. If you can get a basin of water, put your face into it and open and shut your eyes. Take a pinch of snuff if it can be got; the sneezing may help dislodgment. If none of these are of any nse, pull down the loAver lid and examine for the irritating particle on its inner side; if not there, examine the upper eyelid. To do this get the patient to sit down, put a towel over the head, place the head back against your chest as you stand behind him; now press a penholder, or fine stick, or stout wire on the skin three-fourths of an inch above the edge of the upper eyelid, and, pushing it back, seize the eyelashes of the upper lid between the finger and thumb, and pull them forwards and upwards, everting the lid by pulling it back over the penholder. You can thus examine for the foreign body and remove it if it is there. If you can see a piece of steel /i-red into tlie clear part of the eye, drop in a few drops of olive oil, apply a lump of cotton-wool or sheep’s- wool on the closed eyelid, and tie up with a hand- kerchief, exercising .slight pressure on the eyeball 80 as to keep it quiet, and take tho ])aticnt at once to the doctor. Dandiige tho eye as shown at p. 63. To remove a Foreign Body, such as a Pea or Bead, from the Ear.—In the first place, if there is