| Show eye cups several parties in this territory afflicted with weak sight have bave been persuaded into the use of a certain lately invented instrument called eyecup eye cup which lias his been imported from france to this country it is constructed on the principle of an all ordinary rubber cupping gl glass ass but maceso made so as to accurately fit over the eye by B Y squeezing the rubber bulb and then applying it suction is made and the eye drawn more or less from its socket the dealers in this optical instrument claim that it will relieve the long g sightedness sight edness of old people and thus render rendert the heuse use of glasses unnecessary ry A number of the high authorities ties however arwe as we learn leam from a recent issue of the medical record have called repeated attention to its danger jt it really has been known to produce retinal congestion and hemorrhage various inflammations and disorders in the different parts of that exquisitely complicated and delicate mechanism called the eye even cases ewes of blindness have resulted from the use of the eyecup eye cup |
