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Your Grandparents had 2 Eye Stones and kept them in a jar of sugar They were inserted into the eye socket They would roam around clean it and after a half an hour pop out What were they?
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∙ 14y ago
My great-grandfather brought home quite a few eye stones from the Carribean around 1890 or so. He and his comrades noticed many them moving about at the water's edge. They were a common commodity in coastal village pharmacies for 50¢ each, considerable money for that time. My great-grandfather brought back a small jar full which netted him handsome pocket money as well as stones for family use. Several are still in posession of family members. They were used to remove grain chaff, ash, grit or similar irritants from the eye. As stated in the question, they would move about for some time, semingly taking up the irritant particles, before dropping out through some natural but poorly-understood stimulus. It is not clear whether they were some sort of marine creature similar to limpets or were merely calciferous in composition. They are all alike in form, resembling ½ a dried pea yet vary in size, in my great-grandfather's words, "from the head of a pin to ½ a kidney bean." Those "kept" in sugar, which seemingly maintains their efficacy, do not grow or shrink. To test an eye stone, put it in a saucer of warm vinegar; it should slowly move about, eventually covering all the dish's bottom. They have yet to be "fully described."
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