ated on the under surface of the upper lid it may be
promptly removed by pulling the upper lid forcibly down and over the
lower lid. The eyelashes of the lower lid act as a brush and as a rule
quickly remove the irritant if the procedure is carried out adroitly.
Everting the upper lid is a means of locating the body and in making
possible its removal by a small camel's hair brush or corner of a
handkerchief. To evert the upper lid it is necessary to employ a guide.
A match stem may be used in an emergency. This is laid across the middle
of the upper lid, the eye lashes are grasped with the fingers of the
other hand and the lid is bent over the match stem and turned up thus
everting or turning inside out the entire upper lid. The procedure may
be facilitated if the patient is instructed to look down while the
operator is drawing the eye-lid upward.

If the particle cannot be easily removed by any of the above methods it
is not safe for an uninstructed individual to go any further. The eye is
an exceedingly delicate organ and may be permanently injured by
unnecessary irritation. It is always safer and it may be cheaper in the
long run to consult a competent oculist in such cases.

After the removal of any object from the eye, it is desirable to
frequently wash it out with a saturated solution of boracic acid. This
mixture will allay any inflammation and will tend to restore the normal
condition more quickly and more satisfactorily than if the eye were left
to heal itself.

Foreign Bodies in the Ear.--When a foreign body gets into the ear
mothers are unnecessarily alarmed because of a failure to appreciate
that the ear is a closed passage. It is impossible for any object to get
into the ear itself; the depth of the external passage is only about one
inch in an adult. At this point the passage is completely closed by the
drum membrane. Most of the harm is done by ignorant meddling, not by the
object itself.

Children frequently put foreign bodies in the ear, as, buttons, pebbles,
beans, cherry stones, coffee, etc. The very first thing for the mother
to do when she learns that her child has put "something" in its ear is
to keep cool, and try to find out what the something is. It is
essential to know what the article is because different articles are
treated differently. For example if we try to remove a bean or pea with
a syringe, the liquid will cause the pea or bean to swell and result in
wedging it in so firmly that i