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“Something in the Eyes”
Medical Science Fragments Sixteen

     When we get something in our eyes or else they are somehow injured, they often recover on their own when left alone, so there is no need to get anxious about such conditions. Still, the average person who does not understand this, will immediately go to a doctor and because doctors are equally as ignorant, they apply medicinal eye drops. Even minute amounts of that medicine permeate through the wound delaying or preventing recovery, and thus are caused instances of serious eye disease, for which many suffer for long periods. Another example is when soap gets into the eyes, they may hurt or get red for a while, but this condition too, will easily heal if left alone. Medical treatment for this temporary condition expressly creates eye disease, and truly frightening are the rare instances when some individuals lose their sight as well.
     These examples do show how medical treatment does create the cause of misfortune, but probably very few of my readers will believe just because I tell them so here. The world truly is an assembly of pitiful lamps.

Eikô, Issue 166, July 23, 1952
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