A 35mm photo I took of medical tools at the Ellis Island Museum.

Fact-The inside of immigrants’ eyelids were flipper up with button fasteners to check a person for a highly contagious eye diseased that caused hair to grow on the inside of the lid. Persons found to have had this disease had the hair scraped off with a small metal bristled tool.

This post is posted on Wednesday 25 January 2012.
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