ct represented an illness called trochoma. it was a much widespread disease back in the past. still exists. it makes the underpart of your eyelid is rough as sandpaper. highly contagious and incurable. if they had to check the eyes, they used buttonhooks, hooks that were used to pull up gloves for women of high society. thought pull up your eye led to see if the tell tale signs of the disease were there. if you were taken this moment with initials on your coat, intit didn't mean you were automatically going to be sent back. it did mean that down these hallways, here and over here, they will take you to individual medical exam rooms. all of these initials were about making this process more efficient. they didn't have the time to give you a thorough exam. but the doctors down that hall could look at you and check you out more specifically for just those two or three initials on your coat. the vars majority, it will be no problem. the man with the stubbed toe. he'll be treated and come back out here. for some, it may mean an internment in the hospital for days, weeks, and maybe