Show fit dit t 1 a I f LA by the kia eye it 11 is r aftic I 1 ly y bof possible ible by m meana nna C oi the i of the I 1 binl acla co con r tury to exactly lern learn the optical condi tion lion of rn GU eye ce to dide decide jui jua glas glasses as it if any are needed far cyrita jt p afi c working and it is alao iulo 20 tn 1001 a upon it aud and by tle appearance of it U tissues und and it ita blood ves els to decide a aa I 1 to the existence of serious disease w when her there are few other symptoms that point I 1 to I it when there may be none besides to be found to the body that positively I 1 pr prove ovelt it I 1 may mention two classes of disease one constitutional and the other local which illustrate this statement the eye mirror ophthalmoscope is the instrument im by which such things are settled brights Bligh ts disease a name caf carrying tying dread to many a household is the constitutional to which I 1 refer in not a few cases the diagnosis of it is made by the examination of the retina with the eye mirror the expert will make no mistake if the eye gives evidence of it for its signs signe are positive in minute bleeding from the blood vessels and peculiar fawn colored spots on the retina the surgeon dreads to find them because they are evidence of an advanced stage of the malady which prematurely destroys BO many lives brights disease is in fact a degeneration of many of the tissues of tho body the walls of the arteries being among them in no part of the body can this degeneration be so BO readily detected as in the retina of the eye cosmopolitan mo politan |