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Show the packing establishments, And they claim that this complaint disappears promptly with the cloisa of the oyster season. The shuckers come to tho institution complaining that thpy have had their eyes hurt by a chip of the oyster shell, but the ulcer is entirely different to the physician's eye to that caused by an abrasion from anything else, such as a nail, chip of marble or rock, a pin, or even a clean shell. A mere look at the ulcerated cornea suffices to determine that tho patient is an oyster shueker. The disease yields easily to treatment, and very frequently tho patient is so far relieved of pain as to be able to return to his work within twenty-four hours. What is called the sterilizing treatment is applied to the sufferers. It consists of applying cocaine to the eye until all sensibility sen-sibility has been lost, and then carefully touching tho ulcer on the cornea with a platinum wire heated to whiteness by a ; galvanic ewrent. Baltimore- American. I Oyster .shockers' Eye Disease. f "The oyster ehncker8' eye disease" is : thotiilepven by tho professional Btaff 5f tho Presbyterian Eyo and Ear hos- '4 tiitnl to a trouble affecting a largo ruiin- xt of their patients at this season of lia year. It is believed that the pecul iar kind of ulceration cf the eyeball ; A hich is known by this title is caused I by the juice of the oyster touching tho I cornea of an eye which has previously I been slightly injured. The doctors say I I they can tell exactly Tvhen the oyster m I fciison is at hand by the appearance of S jiatipiits with this complaint within twenty-four hours after the opening of |