Show DAILY HEALTH SERVICE SERVICE- I Trouble With Eye Is Often Due I 1 I to Infected Teeth or Tonsils A I By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the Amer American can Medical Association and of Hygeia Hy Hy- geia gels tho the Health Magazine For Kor at least twenty years ears the Int in- in t terest resl o ot of medicine has been centered l' l particularly upon upon the possibility that Infections In tho the teeth tonsils joints and In other places places local infections may infectIons may bo be carried to the c eye e the heart the brain tho the spinal cord coid or om oth other r parts ports and there theio new Infections be ie set up Of particular particular ular tiler interest Is the manner In which the eye ce may become infected In this manner Recently Dr A A. f F. F o of London has described arlo various arlous ls types of disorders of the eye which were relieved relie b by the recognition of or such nn an infection and l by y its removal temo Of Or particular Interest were certain cases in which the eyes eyes' eJI were constantly constantly con con- filled tilled with fluid or tears tearsa tears tears- a L symptom called A A. woman 3 32 years old whoso eyes ces were alwa always s 's watering was as found to have a considerable number o of badly infected teeth No other cause for such a disturbance of or tho the eye could be When hen the tooth condition was cleared up the eye e condition cleared up I promptly The result may have been coincidence but ut It is reasonable to believe belle that thero there ml might ht also be a cause and effect relationship Inflammation of the tho eyelids Is quito quite frequently associated with wiLl the lime presence of enlar enlarged rl und arid Infected Infect Infect- ed tonsils Sometimes these con con are aro treated by b- lotions and v ointments and h by the tho provisIon pro of or glasses and they will f seem e 1 to improve im ira- prove 1 temporarily but tho the Improvement Improvement Improve Improve- ment will sill not be permanent until tho the infected teeth and tonsils arere are aro re removed moved The Time most serious of ot the types of or infection are aro ulcers o of tho the eye ere which quite frequently are as associated asso isso- o- o dated with Infections in the time mouth In tho the presence of or ulceration with witha a n severe se infection of or the mouth it is advisable that tho the dental treatment be immediate since every moment of ot delay dclay may make the condition more moro serious There ar are o of course certain forms of disorders of or the tIme eye eyo which are apparently in no WOO way vay related to focal Infection for or example cataracts In an attempt to handle this condition numerous cases have ha been studied in which er c every possIble possible possible ble foci of infection have been re relieved relieved re- re lIe ed and yet et the tho cataracts did not improve nor was their development development develop develop- ment delayed It Is Is' quito QuIte possible that the of or the eye I is Ig cau caused ed not by tho the germ carried to the tho eye cye but b by the tho development of or the tho poisonous poison polson- ou Otis ous products o of tho the germs and the effects of ot the these e poisons upon the tissue of or the eye ce It has long been known that tho the eye 0 is 1 sensitive e to various arIous types of poison polson and that blindness or inflammation of at the thet t ye yo is not infrequently a aver very ery parly t symptom of at various forms of or intoxication |