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another instance a man was going from the railroad station to his
hotel in a gale of wind, when, as he turned the corner of the
street, an English sparrow was blown into his face. Its bill
penetrated his eyeball and completely ruined his sight. There are
several instances on record in which game fowls have destroyed
the eyes of their owners. In one case a game cock almost
completed the enucleation of the eye of his handler by striking
him with his gaff while preparing in a cock-pit.
Moorehead explains a rare accident to an eye as follows:--
"Mr. S. B. A., while attending to his bees, was stung by one upon
the right upper eyelid near its center. An employee, who was
assisting in the work, immediately discovered the sting driven in
the lid and cautiously extracted it, stating that he made
sufficient traction to lift the lid well away from the globe. In
a few hours the lid became much swollen, but the pain experienced
at first had disappeared. Before retiring for the night he began
gentle massage of the lid, stroking it horizontally with his
finger. The edematous condition was by this means much reduced in
a short time. While thus engaged in stroking the lid he suddenly
experienced intense pain in the eye as if it had been pierced by
a sharp instrument.
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