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Show YOUR HEALTH J BV DR. R H BISHOP, j WATCH EYE DISORDERS In reading of famine conditions In the Near East and in Russia, we also pi if trai Mini... dread eye dlyoaae. Ti 1 1 home la a contagious disease of the eyelids The. watrery discharge is capable of producing the disease In the eyes of those who are well Trachoma Is similar to and In fact may be just what we formerly called granulated eyelids Trachoma presents a problem more i nicely economic than perhaps any other in tlio whole field of preventive-medicine- No on-? dies of the disease. Half of those who have it are eventually even-tually n ade blind The economic usefulness of every one who has it Is greatly decreased. It is .--lowly but surely contagious, Kprea-lins craduall through familes. schools, institutions of whole communities. com-munities. The disease is essentially chronic i.ind may last a lift-time. It puts many I otherwise able-bodied people on ehar-ity ehar-ity or in ount Institutions ! Some doctors think that the disease is not duo to one bacillus alone but that one of a number of bacilli ma ; cause it and that a neglected case of ;sore eyes may start It. I If they are right, then the way to prevent trachoma is to keep the eyes free from minor "mattering?" " pinkeye," pink-eye," 'sore eyes" and so forth It would be well, too, to beware of those ,who have something wrong with their eyes. It might be trachoma |