RUBBER EYES.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 243, 19 January 1917, Page 1 (Supplement)

RUBBER EYES.

BETTER THAN GLASS. Glass eye s are always more or less uncomfortable, and frequently unsightly, .and it is interesting, theiv-fore, when the deformities of war «» so serious a 'subject of consideration, to learn that two French workers, MM. Lemaitr* and Teuillieres, have evolved an entirely new method of replacing a lost eye. They aimed at producing a substance of sufficient eUsti?Lty and soitntss to respond to th* cliinges in the eye-socket, and at the same time cf sufficient hardness to pp. sent a smooth, natural effect between the evelids.

Experiment Ip<l them to take careful casts of ihe socket in plaster and to make from these casts the body of an artitici.il eye which should exactly tit the socket. They solved the difficulty of consistence by making the front of the new eye of hard rubber, vulcanised and enamelled to represent the natural appearance, and the back or the eye of soft rubber, hollowed out in the iorm of a ball and tilled with air.

These hollow eyes have been found to answer the purpose very well. They are soft and elastic; they iespond in a remarkable manner to the ocular movements: they do not irritate tit" socket, and tluy have the great additional advantage ot be : ng unbreakable.