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Show A SETT DANOCB. Klealrte Llrht Prodnetnc . Kina or Sunstroke." r.iAH.8'.1,0V- I0- A new danger from electno light Is shown In a re-S?,J5.iprfcQnlf1 re-S?,J5.iprfcQnlf1 to tho Academy of rv2!5:.rh,ef ot, mical staff at tho Creusotcoal mines and iron works. He has discovered that we can re-ctlVB re-ctlVB injury from electric light slm-Uar slm-Uar to that caused by sunstroke, rhe ordinary arc lights are fairly safe and when they do harm It Is only to the eyes, butstrong maladies arise in the coal and iron mines at Creusot, in which many lamps of tilgh candle power ategruuiil often together for special pur,esa. Tuose persons for whom electricity has an affinity suffer most. Afttr rem In-ing In-ing an hour or thereabouts in the powerful electric light, their faces, necks and hands, these being the parts exposed, begin to tingle and itch, their sight Is affected and everything looks raffron-colored to them. Tho lachrymose glands are strongly stimulated, tears roll down the cbetrks, and there I the sensa-uon sensa-uon of a grain of sand under thu eyelid, with Inflammation of the conjunctiva, which last for four or nvo days. Other symptoms are headache, fever and peeling off" of the reddened skin. Heat plays a prt in the sunstroke, but it plais no part in the electric llghtstroke,sInce at twelve yards distance from the arc lamp the effect above described Is produced. Dr. Desfontilnes "attributes the stroke to the chemical action of the light, and declares that it deteriorates the retina, conjunctiva, and even the pulp of the brain, and must lead to revolution in ophthalmology, because be-cause It will alter the constitution of the eye. |