Evening Star Newspaper, June 2, 1937, Page 7

- CENTERBLINDNES TRACED T0 S Eye Doctors Told Liquor and Nicotine Not Solely Responsible. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. A Washington doctor smoked two packs of cigarettes and drank a quart of peach brandy—his favorite bev- erage—a day. By and by he began to note the progress of & queer disease, retro- bulbar neuritis. He was going blind In a strange way. He couldn't see out of the centers of his eves. When read- ing, a page of type was a jumble of letters and black spots. He had diffi- eulty in recognizing friends when he looked directly at them. Peripheral vision, out of the sides of his eyes, remained all right. This is not a rare condition. It | often occurs in men cer 40 who are heavy smokers and drinkers. Both alcohol and nicotine affect the optic nerve, or that portion of it behind the eyeball. About the only thing to do, the man's physicians advued{ him, was to swear off. He already was in such a condition that he could not practice his profession. Takes Accidental Sneeze Cure. The doctor retired to a farm in nearby Maryland and took up gar- dening. But in spite of foreswearing liquor and tobacco, and the healthy life in the country, his eyes got no better. One day he was using lime in | his garden. Somebody told him to mix kerosene with it in a certain pro- portion. His eyesight was so poor that he had to take a handful of the stuff and bring it right in front of his face to judge whether it was of the right con- | sistency. It got too close and started a fit of very violent sneezing. The doctor couldn't stop for half an hour. From that time on his eyes began to get better until almost normal vision was restored and he was able to re- sume his practice. This 1.ay have been a coincidence, Dr. George B. Jenkins, professor of anatomy at George Washington Uni- versity, told a group of the country's leading eve doctors here yesterday, but | on the other hand it may be evidence that alcohol and nicotine are not always to be blamed for this queer blindness. Added to other cases on record, he said, it supports the thesis that the optic nerve inflammation may be due to infection from the sphenoid Einus, just back of the nose and be- | tween the eyes, which seeps through | the very thin bone which divides this | from the grooves through which | branches of the optic nerve run to each eye. Abstainers Also Affected. | There is no question, he stressed, but that the majority of the cases are due to liquor and tobacco, but occasionally they occur in total ab- atainers and non-smokers. Even with | a& heavy drinker, it was explained, alcohol may not be at fault. This condition is something quite different, opthalmologists explained, from the blindness which supposedly often fol- | lowed drinking of bad bootleg hquor‘ during prohibition. In that case the whole optic nerve was affected and the end result was total blindness. | ‘These cases have almost disappeared. The ‘“center blindness” may result from the best liquor on the market. Another condition which, Dr. Jen- kins said, often may be due to sinus infections, is inflamation and swelling of the orbit which causes & “pop-eye” Appearance, is extremely painful, leads eventually to blindness, and often is accompanied by fever. He told of one | patient at the George Washington clinic who has been relieved over and | over again simply by washing out his | nose. Efforts to discover the cause of vernal conjunctivitis, or Spring ca- tarrh, were described by Dr. Sanford | R. Gifford of Chicago. This is a | special form of rose fever which affects | the conjunctiva, or inner membranes | of the eyelids, causing almost unen- | durable itching and profuse water se- | cretion from the eyes. | Radium Comes to Aid. It is known, he explained, to be an sllergy, probably due to different | kinds of pollen. The ordinary tests for allergy have not proved successful | and now various pollens are being | dropped directly in the eyes of sensi- | tive persons during the Winter. In | this way it is hoped to find the com- monest agent. Considerable success, he said, is be- ing obtained by treating these cases | with radium. This results in shrink- | age of the tissue so that movements | of the eyelid do not cause so much drritation. Dr. Arthur J. Bedell of Albany told of the first successful color photo- graphs of the fundus, or back of the eyeball, which should enable opthal- mologists to make a more accurate and leisurely diagnosis of pathological conditions. Methods of correcting squint eye without surgery were dis- cusse® by Dr. Legrand H. Hardy of New York City. Believes in Advertisements. BETHANY, Mo. (#).—H. A. Cowles | of Pleasanton, Iowa, bought 80 acres of land at a sheriff’s sale. When Cowles was ready to sign the transfer papers he reached in his pocket and paid Sherift H. L. McCollum $2,000 in amall bills. Asked why he carried the money instead of writing a check, Cowles pointed to the last line on an adver- tisement of the sale. It read: “Terms =—Cash in hand.” —_— Corn Sheller Early Patent. One of the earliest United States patents was granted to John Moon in 1825 on a corn sheller. #f Your Dentist Hurts You Try ) 5ust\DR. FIELD | Succeeds . . . Where Others Failed 2 Many years of ex- S O perience hos espe- YENSS iy itted me to handle the most difficult cases of dental surgery. With mod- ern equipment and means ot hand to alleviate pain, you are assured careful, conscientious work at all times. Special vio- let ray treatment for pyorrhea. | quarantee fit in any mouth. All work done in my laboratory. My special attention given to nervous persons. Extractions. $1 & $2. Also Gas Plat $10 to ntes > Gold ~ Crown: Fillings DR. FIELD 406 7th St. N.W. MEr. 9256 Over Woolworth 5 & 106 Store Betrayed by his awkward appearance in riding horseback with short stirrups, Guy E. Osborne, right, escaped convict, was arrested after the slaying of Truett of Justice agent, at a farm house 20,1 . Rowe, young Department les from Gallup, N. Mexz. LEO DIEGELMAN DIES AT CAPITAL RESIDENCE Native of Germany Was Em- ployed at Bureau of En- graving. Leo Diegelman, 65, employe of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing | since 1917 and a native of Fulda, Germany, died yesterday at his home, 214 Twelfth street southwest. He had lived here for 38 years. Funeral services will be held at 8:30 | FREE m EVE am. Friday at the residence and at 9 am. in St. Mary's Catholic Chuych, of whictfhe was a member. Burial will be in St. Mary’s Cemetery. Mr. Diegelman was a member of the Holy Name Society of the church and of the German-American Benevolent As- sociation. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Kre- 7enz Diegelman, and seven children, Gregory, Anna, Mary, Eleanor, Theo- dore and Ottilia and Mrs. Catherine Schwab, all of Washington. Tokio, Japan, has opened an addi- tional brides’ school, with 60 enrolled. 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