Most people feel very
protective toward their vision,
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and toward the
eyes... and well, they should.
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As also about the ears
and the nose and the mouth
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because these are very
highly sensitive organs.
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For the next half an
hour, Don Miller and I will
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talk with you about some
things having to do with these
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sensory organs,
especially the vision.
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I'm Agatha Thrash
from Uchee Pines Institute
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and we hope you will stay by
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and hear our program.
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Welcome to "Help
Yourself to Health"
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with Dr. Agatha Thrash
of Uchee Pines Institute.
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And now, here's
your host, Dr. Thrash.
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The eye is one of the most
marvelous of all the anatomical
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structures in the body.
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When you study the
eye, you begin to see
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that it has so many different
kinds of structures that we
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don't find
elsewhere in the body.
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Take the transparent cornea,
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no where else do we have
such a marvelous sheet of tissue
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organized so that we
can see through it...
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And yet, it's composed of
proteins and many other things
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that in other parts of
the body are not transparent.
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And yet here, in this place,
God has made this a transparent
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window... A window
through which we can look out,
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and a window through which
we can obtain information from
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the outside world.
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Our outside world comes
to us first through the eye,
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then goes to the back of
the head where we have the
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visual cortex.
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It is back there that we begin
the process of being able to see
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Now, Don Miller, is one of
my associates at Uchee Pines
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and he and I will be discussing
this topic for you... of vision.
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And Don Miller will now
talk with you about some aspects
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of this marvelous process...
the vision and how we see.
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Okay... Most people,
unfortunately, will develop
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some type of a visual problem.
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And working correctly,
the light goes into the eye...
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It goes through the cornea.
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It goes through the pupil.
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It goes through the lens.
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It goes through the
aqueous and vitreous humors,
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right back to the
retina, to the fovea centralis.
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Everything is just right
and we've got good vision.
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And that's the ideal,
and most of us, I believe,
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probably were born
with this good vision.
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But as time goes on,
that vision seems to go away
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and I believe it's becoming
more and more of a problem
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today, than it has
ever been in the past.
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Now I believe one
of the things today,
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and I talk with
people all the time now...
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we're now into the computer age,
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and people who spend a lot of
time in front of the computer,
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more time that we ever spent
in front of the television,
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are starting to have to
get glasses changed every
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couple of years.
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And, one thing about
watching a television,
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and I'm not for television...
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The television normally
is 12, 15, 20 feet away.
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But now we've got these
computer screens sitting
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RIGHT in our faces.
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Back at Uchee
Pines in my office,
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I've got a computer desk
with a hole where you put your
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screen and
there's nothing behind it,
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and I don't have my
screen sitting there.
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I've got my screen sitting on
a table pushed back from there
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so it's far enough away
that I don't have that extreme
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eye strain.
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The sooner we start
straining our eyes as a child,
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the more apt we are to
develop eye problem later on.
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As a matter of fact, children
who, either by their choice
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and normally not by
their choice but by force,
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or by... just the fact
that this is the life we've got
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you in, child...
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learn to read at a very, very
young age are far more likely
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to develop myopia
or nearsightedness
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as they get older.
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Now, what is nearsightedness?
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Let me just sort of
explain a little bit about
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how we see what we see.
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I want to sort of use
my hand as a representation
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of the retina, or
the back part of my eye.
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And, right there in
the center of the retina,
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there's a little indentation
called the fovea centralis
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And I'm going to make
a little mark on my hand
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to say that's
the fovea centralis.
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What happens when
we are seeing correctly
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is that the light
goes through the cornea,
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through the pupil,
through the aqueous humor,
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through the lens,
through the vitreous humor
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All these things are
refracting the light,
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and if done properly, it focuses
right on the fovea centralis.
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That's perfect vision.
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BUT sometimes, because of
the misshapen part of the lens
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or the cornea,
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the light and the focus is
in front of the fovea centralis.
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And when it's sitting out
here, you are nearsighted.
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Now nearsighted means
that you can see things fine
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up close but things far away
... you don't see quite so well
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So they have to correct
that with corrective lenses
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which have a shape of the
lens that will then project that
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image back onto
the fovea centralis.
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Now let's say you
don't have myopia...
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You've got, we'll just use
the term "farsightedness. "
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...easier term to remember.
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That means you can see
things fine out there...
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but up front, it's hard
to read the small print...
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It's hard to read LARGE print!
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What's happening there
is, the focus point is behind
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the fovea centralis...
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Or basically, it has
not come together yet...
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nothing is focused behind there,
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you're getting back
into the brain there.
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But it would really focus
behind the fovea centralis.
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There we have what
we call "farsightedness"
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We can see things
good far away but up front,
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we're having a problem.
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What we do there is...
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we have another shape of
the lens which changes...
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Again, this is because
of the shape of the pupil
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or the iris,
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and if we put a certain shape
of the lens in front of that eye
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it will pull it back
up to the fovea centralis
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and we can see fine there.
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Then we have people like me...
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I've got what's
called "astigmatism. "
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That means the light is
sort of going all over the place
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in there and
it's all hard to see.
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You can usually tell a
person with astigmatism
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because they're
always squinting...
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They're squinting everywhere.
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They just can't see it anymore.
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And I probably suffered
with my eye problem for a number
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of years until finally, in
my freshman year of college,
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I finally had an
eye test that said...
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"Yes, you need some glasses. "
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And so, I got my
first pair of glasses in my
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freshman year of college,
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and I've gotten them all
along the way since then.
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Now I'm thankful
that along the way,
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that glasses
have sort of changed.
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Now, back when I first got them,
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it was just a
single sheet of glass.
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And finally about,
oh... 10 years ago,
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I had to go to bifocals.
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I mean,
BIFOCALS, give me a break!
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And I was only 40 years old!
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But I went to bifocals
and that is very hard to
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get used to because
you got this line there
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But now they've
got these things...
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these graduated
lenses like I have
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and it makes vision a
whole lot better to handle.
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But there is another eye
problem that we are seeing
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more and more in
the baby boomers...
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those as we grow
older about age 40...
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And this eye problem is
that our arms grow too short.
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What basically I'm meaning is...
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You see the people
who have this presbyopia
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holding it out
further and further because
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they just can't see
it up close anymore.
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This is basically
called, "old age eye"
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And, as we get older,
our muscles get weaker,
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they can no longer pull
the lens into the proper shapes
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and we have what's
called, I've just mentioned,
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"old age eye. "
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Again, all of these things
can be nicely corrected with
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corrective lenses but the
sooner we get them corrected,
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the better... for a
number of reasons...
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One, without corrective
lenses, we're missing some
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quality in our lives.
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We're going to
miss the small print.
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We're going to miss
things that may be important,
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and may be vital.
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As a matter of
fact, my driver's license,
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and my pilot's license both say,
"Must wear corrective lenses"
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I have to wear these
things so that I can see what
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I need to see out
there in my environment.
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And so, especially
watch the children.
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First of all, don't force your
child... 3, 4, or 5 years of age
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to read if they do not
have that propensity to read.
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Let them be as free as
lambs as long as possible...
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because their eyes have
not yet fully developed.
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Some parts of our body
aren't ready, when we are born,
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to jump right
into an adult life.
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Our eyes need to slowly develop.
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Let the child be used
to looking out at nature...
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spending time
looking at the trees,
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looking through the fields,
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looking out there at
the BIG world before you
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bring them down
into the small world.
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He will learn and she will
learn to read soon enough...
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if you allow them to
develop their eyes so that their
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eyesight will be good.
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Ensure that they have
that good eyesight as a child
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and they will normally keep
it throughout their lifetime.
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And so, these are some of
the, if I can use the word,
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"pathologies" of eyesight...
farsightedness, nearsightedness
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astigmatism and "old age eyes"
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Don't worry about it...
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One of these days, Jesus is
coming and He's going to make
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EVERYTHING change in
the twinkling of MY EYES!
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I'm going to have good
eyes again, Dr. Thrash.
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Yes, we can
look forward to that.
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Now the anatomy of the
eye is something I NEVER tire
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of studying.
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I never tire of
reading about the research done
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just on the anatomy of the eye.
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Let me just briefly
tell you what it is...
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Don Miller mentioned that
we have several layers that
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we must go through before
we finally get back to the
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fovea centralis, or that place
where there is SHARP FOCUS.
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But the first thing is
the transparent cornea.
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Then, after that, is a chamber,
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that's the
anterior chamber of the eye.
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It is filled with a fluid.
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Then after that is
the lens of the eye.
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The lens is suspended
by enormously delicate
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strands of connective tissue...
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and suspended on the edges
and extends outward to a muscle.
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This muscle is what
pulls on those little filaments
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that are attached to the lens
and change the shape of the lens
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as long as we can.
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But, the time
finally comes in life,
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as Don Miller says...
when we contract those muscles,
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that should flatten the
lens and make it so that it can
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focus in a different plane,
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that focus can no longer
occur because the lens is
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now stiffened a bit...
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And then, the arms
get shorter, and shorter,
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and we think that we
need some longer arms.
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When actually, what
is happening is that
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the focus that occurs, or the
part of the focus that occurs
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close up is NOT happening
and the rest of the eye
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is not adequate to make
the focus come directly to the
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fovea centralis.
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The next part of the eye, after
the lens with its wonderful
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little ligaments
and little muscle...
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The next part of the
eye is the vitreous humor.
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The vitreous humor
is somewhat gelatinous.
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This body... it is
an actual structure.
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It is not just fluid.
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This structure is
attached to the retina.
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Now when a person gets to be
about 40, 50, or 60 years of age
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it's a very common
thing to have that vitreous
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to turn loose its
moorings on the retina.
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And when they do, the person,
when these moorings turn loose,
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the person may see
some flashes of light in the
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in the peripheral vision.
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Now this peripheral
vision that we're seeing,
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where we see
this flashing light,
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that peripheral vision is
giving us the warning that
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the retina is being
indented at that area.
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And so that causes a
little flash of light in the
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peripheral visual field...
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And the person can tell that
it's in this eye, or that it's
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in this eye because the
flash only occurs in that eye.
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And usually only
occurs when the person looks
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from side to side.
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And eventually, the release
of the vitreous is complete
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and now the vitreous is
loose inside the eyeball.
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Now being loose in there,
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there are portions of
the vitreous over on the side
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where the density is greater...
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And that now
floats to a central area
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where the person gets
what is called, "a floater. "
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These floaters are
annoying to the person,
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and they are permanent.
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They will not be going away.
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Then past the vitreous,
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then there is the retina.
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And the retina,
itself, or the back part of the
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round part of the
globe of the eyeball,
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is itself nowhere near simple...
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It's not JUST the
retina, but it is several coats
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and that's beyond the
scope of our study without
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visual aids, but be
aware that the anatomy
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of the eye proves
beyond ALL shadow of doubt
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that we have a Divine Designer.
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And that this Divine Designer
is a genius at engineering
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He especially is
a Genius of Light,
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and understands
light quite well.
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Now vision would not occur
if we only had the eyeball.
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We must have more
than the eye itself.
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The eye is
connected to the optic nerve.
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The optic nerve from
each eye goes backward
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behind the eye and then crosses.
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Again, this is a masterpiece
of Divine engineering
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to make this cross...
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It is called the "optic
chiasm" or the optic cross.
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And then, part of
the fibers from one eye
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will go to the same side,
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but part of the fibers
will cross and go to the
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opposite side.
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And it is this thing that
enables us to have the most
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excellent vision.
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We also do a lot of
fill-in with the eye.
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Not everything is
perceived in the eye.
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A lot of what we see as vision,
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occurs actually
in the brain itself.
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Now, I don't know if
you've ever done this,
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but if you've ever
seen a solid brick wall,
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you do not know it,
but there is a place
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in that brick wall,
where you have a blind spot.
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That blind spot is just
perfectly filled in by your mind
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Because the mind has
accepted the fact that
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there is a blind spot
there and that it should make up
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what is there
with what is around it.
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So if it's a tree
you're looking at,
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the blind spot is in the tree,
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the mind simply makes up
leaves and puts them there.
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Makes up bricks and
mortar and puts it there.
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A marvelous
instrument is the eye.
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It is positively fascinating
to study the subject of vision.
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We also have a number
of things that go wrong
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with the vision and with
the eye that are annoying,
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or that
interfere with our vision.
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One of those
things is conjunctivitis.
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Conjunctivitis is
an inflammation of
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this outside part of the eye.
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You pull down the lower eyelid,
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you will see that there
is a cup there in the bottom
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of the eyelid.
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That cup is the
conjunctival sac, or the
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conjunctival cup.
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And it's a very good
place for us to put medicine if
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we have to treat the eye
with some kind of medicine.
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Just drop it in that
little cup made there by
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pulling the lower eyelid down.
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We can also irrigate by
pulling the lower eyelid
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down and with a bulb syringe,
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we can inject
water into this sac and
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irrigate the eye very nicely.
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Now by having the person
look all around, up and down
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and around, they can
get all parts of the eye
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or the conjunctiva
bathed in the water
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or the saline that you have
instilled in this lower eyelid.
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How do you make up saline?
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Very simple... it's
1 teaspoonful of salt
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to 1 pint of water...
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and then it will
not burn the eye.
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Plain water will burn the eye,
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but 1 teaspoonful of salt
to a pint of water will not
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burn the eye.
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And then you can irrigate the
eye if it gets something in it
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and that will be a great help.
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Now let us say that something
got in the eye and it is
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sort of imbedded in the
tissues of the conjunctiva
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and you can't get it out.
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You irrigate, you wipe with
a tissue and you aren't able
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to get it out.
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A neat little trick
that has been recommended
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by some
physicians who study the eye,
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is just to put a flaxseed...
a tiny, little, brown flaxseed
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which has this
material on the outside
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that becomes
gelatinous once it gets moist.
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So you just lay that... if
you can see the speck of trash
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that's imbedded
in the conjunctiva...
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you can just put the little
flaxseed right there against it
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and hold it there until
the gel forms on the outside
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of the flaxseed...
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And often that bit of
trash will become trapped in the
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gelatinous part of the flaxseed
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and you can very easily
take it out in that way.
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Now often when you've
had some kind of trauma
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to the conjunctiva,
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you will also have
a source or a portal
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where germs can get into
the eye and cause an infection
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and then you
have conjunctivitis.
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You can treat
conjunctivitis by hot compresses
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and one good way to do
that is simply to take a
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towel, a facial
towel will do well...
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fold it and put it under
the hot water in the sink
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and while you bend
over the hot water,
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you simply hold it
to your eyes like this.
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Now you should
also have a second towel
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in the sink and let it
be getting hot while you're
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holding this one there.
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As soon as this one cools,
which will be in a minute or so,
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then you can drop this
one under the hot water,
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pick up the one that's now
hot, squeeze it a little bit
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and put your
face on that one too.
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Keep it as hot as
you can tolerate it.
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And this kind of treatment to
a conjunctivitis will often be
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very curative for it.
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At least it will help it
and sometimes that's almost
00:19:52.27\00:19:54.83
instantaneous.
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As with any home
remedy, you should get busy
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with the treatment just as
soon as you recognize there
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is an affliction.
00:20:01.47\00:20:02.60
Now a sty on the eyelid
can cause a visual problem too
00:20:02.63\00:20:08.13
because often it secretes a
little bit of secretion into
00:20:08.16\00:20:11.48
the conjunctival sac and
that makes it so that one
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cannot focus nicely
because the conjunctiva
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needs to be transparent,
along with the cornea,
00:20:18.22\00:20:21.67
and all those other structures,
so that you can easily see.
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So if you begin to get a
cloudiness over the vision
00:20:26.10\00:20:29.26
then you can suspect that
you might have some kind of
00:20:29.29\00:20:32.32
problem with the
eyelids, and irrigation with
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saline is quite good.
00:20:35.39\00:20:36.63
Every hour or so, you
can irrigate, and after a
00:20:36.64\00:20:40.87
short while, this
will be helpful to you.
00:20:40.90\00:20:43.89
Now once in a while,
someone will get metal imbedded
00:20:43.92\00:20:47.36
in the eye.
00:20:47.39\00:20:50.60
Of course you need the
very best of skilled help
00:20:50.61\00:20:54.45
that you can get when something
goes wrong with the eye.
00:20:54.48\00:20:57.80
But let us say you're in
some kind of field situation
00:20:57.81\00:21:00.46
and you have no
physician available.
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If this is the case,
then you may be successful
00:21:03.25\00:21:06.13
when taking a metal
sliver out of the eye
00:21:06.16\00:21:08.81
by a very strong magnet.
00:21:08.84\00:21:11.20
Now if you attempt to
use this kind of treatment,
00:21:11.23\00:21:14.58
you will probably need 2 or
3 people to help you hold the
00:21:14.61\00:21:18.09
individual because once
the metal gets in the eye,
00:21:18.12\00:21:22.18
the eye
immediately becomes sensitive,
00:21:22.21\00:21:24.61
and the person can
hardly hold the eyes open
00:21:24.64\00:21:27.30
even when no one is threatening
to put something in it
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But the very thought that
someone is going to try to touch
00:21:30.23\00:21:34.39
the sensitive eye, causes
the individual who has something
00:21:34.42\00:21:37.60
in the eye, to begin
to squint very tightly.
00:21:37.64\00:21:41.64
So with the
individuals who are helping you,
00:21:41.68\00:21:45.65
you must hold the
eye open for the patient.
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And then, very carefully
support your hand that has
00:21:49.27\00:21:53.14
the magnet in it, and bring
it close to the metal sliver...
00:21:53.17\00:21:57.21
And if you're very fortunate,
the metal sliver will be
00:21:57.24\00:22:00.99
attracted to the magnet
just as it begins to touch it.
00:22:01.02\00:22:05.58
But be careful that you do not
push the metal object farther
00:22:05.61\00:22:09.49
into the eye.
00:22:09.50\00:22:10.65
Better that you travel several
hundred miles with the patient,
00:22:10.68\00:22:15.36
than that you make
the situation worse.
00:22:15.39\00:22:18.45
But someone who has as
steady hand can very easily
00:22:18.48\00:22:21.49
help that
situation with the magnet.
00:22:21.52\00:22:24.49
And usually, you can get
it out with a strong magnet.
00:22:24.52\00:22:29.67
Now another thing is
trauma to the eye in which the
00:22:29.70\00:22:33.87
conjunctiva is torn and you
can see a flap is just flapping
00:22:33.90\00:22:38.49
inside the eyelid.
00:22:38.52\00:22:39.81
You can irrigate it to
make certain that it's clean,
00:22:39.84\00:22:42.63
and especially if
there is trash in the eye,
00:22:42.66\00:22:45.25
be sure to get all
the trash out and then
00:22:45.28\00:22:47.55
by the stream of the irrigation,
you can cause the little torn
00:22:47.58\00:22:52.51
flap of the conjunctiva
to get back in place...
00:22:52.54\00:22:55.62
then you carefully
pull the eyelid down over it
00:22:55.65\00:22:59.39
and bandage the eyelid shut.
00:22:59.42\00:23:01.76
And that will hold
the conjunctiva in place
00:23:01.79\00:23:05.97
and usually that's all you need
to do for a torn conjunctiva.
00:23:06.00\00:23:10.83
I like irrigation very much.
00:23:10.86\00:23:13.47
And, there are many things
that one can do for the eye and
00:23:13.50\00:23:16.54
Don Miller is going to
talk with you now about
00:23:16.55\00:23:19.41
another aspect of care
of the eyes... Don Miller.
00:23:19.44\00:23:22.65
One thing that's very
important when you are dealing
00:23:22.68\00:23:25.94
with your eyes is
that you protect them.
00:23:25.97\00:23:28.42
Now God has given us protective
measures for our eyes.
00:23:28.45\00:23:31.34
One of the nicest protective
measures He has given us
00:23:31.37\00:23:34.20
are things called "tears"
00:23:34.23\00:23:35.87
And, we need to make sure
that we keep our tear ducts
00:23:35.90\00:23:40.16
full of tears and one
good way to do that is
00:23:40.19\00:23:42.28
make sure we're drinking
plenty of water because tears
00:23:42.31\00:23:44.64
are coming from water.
00:23:44.65\00:23:45.92
We don't drink enough water.
00:23:45.95\00:23:48.16
Our eyes... Dr.
Thrash has mentioned the term
00:23:48.17\00:23:50.64
"vitreous humor" and
"aqueous humor".. this is liquid
00:23:50.67\00:23:54.36
And we find that since
our brains are 85% water,
00:23:54.39\00:23:58.24
and our eyes are but an
extension of our brains,
00:23:58.27\00:24:01.25
as we don't drink enough water,
00:24:01.28\00:24:02.88
first things to go and one
of the first things to suffer
00:24:02.91\00:24:05.99
will be our brains and our eyes.
00:24:06.02\00:24:08.44
And we start having dried
eyes and we can't see as well.
00:24:08.47\00:24:11.39
So I'm thankful for
this thing called "tears"
00:24:11.42\00:24:13.79
ALSO, for the eyelashes
that we have in our eyes.
00:24:13.82\00:24:17.43
And we should keep the
eyelashes as natural as possible
00:24:17.46\00:24:21.14
I know some people
have a habit of plucking
00:24:21.17\00:24:24.41
their eyelashes out.
00:24:24.44\00:24:25.41
Well, they are hurting their
eyes in a very positive way
00:24:25.42\00:24:28.56
because they're made to sit
there and sweep things away.
00:24:28.59\00:24:31.61
Another thing that
some people do is...
00:24:31.64\00:24:34.59
they sit there and they
paste them all up with things
00:24:34.62\00:24:36.91
like mascara.
00:24:36.94\00:24:38.01
They don't work quite
as well when you do that.
00:24:38.04\00:24:39.92
Another nice thing about
the eyes that God has built in
00:24:39.95\00:24:42.96
is the "blink response"
00:24:42.99\00:24:44.69
And if we cannot blink,
and some people do not blink...
00:24:44.72\00:24:47.74
And basically blinking is
caused mostly by an irritation.
00:24:47.75\00:24:51.81
It's amazing how many
times we get our eyes irritated.
00:24:51.82\00:24:54.80
But also, it's just a process
that God has built into us
00:24:54.83\00:24:57.69
to sweep the eyes, sweep
the eyes, sweep the eyes.
00:24:57.72\00:25:02.23
Now if we didn't have tears,
we'd have this flap of skin
00:25:02.26\00:25:04.65
all the time
rubbing across our eyes...
00:25:04.68\00:25:06.74
It could give us a real problem.
00:25:06.77\00:25:08.45
Another thing we need to do
to take care of our eyes is...
00:25:08.48\00:25:11.56
If we are working in any type
of construction, any type of
00:25:11.59\00:25:15.07
equipment, we should wear
some type of eye protection.
00:25:15.10\00:25:18.58
Some good plastic... some good
nonshatter plastic... like these
00:25:18.61\00:25:23.55
or other types, which
will protect our eyes.
00:25:23.58\00:25:26.04
And sometimes we think...
00:25:26.07\00:25:27.66
"Well, it's not
going to happen to me"
00:25:27.69\00:25:29.48
and we're out
there with our lawn mower
00:25:29.51\00:25:31.17
and we hit that one
little, tiny thing...
00:25:31.20\00:25:33.70
and Dr. Thrash has talked about
a piece of metal in your eye
00:25:33.73\00:25:35.98
...you send a small piece
of metal into your eye from a
00:25:36.01\00:25:39.47
lawn mower, and
you may lose your eye.
00:25:39.48\00:25:42.02
A weed eater... those
little pieces of monofilament,
00:25:42.03\00:25:44.73
flying off all
the time... flying off
00:25:44.76\00:25:46.92
Whenever you're doing
anything with machinery,
00:25:46.95\00:25:50.31
hammering a nail, whatever,
we need to protect our eyes.
00:25:50.34\00:25:53.92
And one other thing we need
to do to protect our eyes is...
00:25:53.95\00:25:57.12
when we're out in the sunshine,
00:25:57.13\00:25:58.45
we should be wearing some
type of eye protection that has
00:25:58.48\00:26:02.11
something to protect ourselves
from the harmful rays of the sun
00:26:02.14\00:26:05.37
Now the rays of the
sun are good for the eyes.
00:26:05.40\00:26:08.61
We should not wear the
sunglasses all the time.
00:26:08.64\00:26:11.19
But between the dangerous
hours of 10 in the morning
00:26:11.22\00:26:14.52
and 3 in the afternoon... very
important to have some type of
00:26:14.53\00:26:16.72
eye protection to keep from
damaging the back of the eyes.
00:26:16.76\00:26:21.84
And, of course, we
learned as children...
00:26:21.88\00:26:22.85
never look into the sun.
00:26:22.88\00:26:24.77
Well, that's a no brainer...
don't look into the sun.
00:26:24.80\00:26:27.69
And you don't look into
someone over there doing some
00:26:27.70\00:26:30.10
arc welding because that
too can cause some serious
00:26:30.13\00:26:32.84
and permanent
damage to the eyes.
00:26:32.87\00:26:37.22
Eyesight! What a blessing!
00:26:37.25\00:26:38.62
I am so
thankful for my eyesight!
00:26:38.65\00:26:40.48
And we need to do everything
that we can do, Dr. Thrash,
00:26:40.51\00:26:43.38
to take good care of our eyes.
00:26:43.41\00:26:44.80
Yes, we do.
00:26:44.83\00:26:45.80
And another one of
the marvels of the eye...
00:26:45.81\00:26:49.38
is the structure in the
retina called the cones.
00:26:49.41\00:26:53.45
We also have
rods in the retinas.
00:26:53.48\00:26:58.08
The eyes can see color
but they can also see shape.
00:26:58.11\00:27:02.73
If we can see
both... both shape and color,
00:27:02.76\00:27:05.87
then we are indeed
quite well blessed...
00:27:05.90\00:27:08.34
And God has made us
so that we can do that.
00:27:08.35\00:27:11.01
Now some people are
color blind and cannot
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see colors or certain colors
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and for these individuals,
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they are
handicapped to some degree
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but by certain
corrections that they can do
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and certain learned
behavior that they have,
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they can learn to handle the
color blindness that they have.
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But with the rods, we have night
vision with them principally,
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and the cones are not
so active at that time.
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The next time that you begin
to thank the Lord for anything,
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let me encourage you to
THANK THE LORD FOR YOUR VISION!
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And especially, thank the Lord
that you have spiritual eyesight
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and know some things about Him.
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