Word: cataract
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...Cataract victims who have had the lens removed from the eye can be given near-normal vision with contact lenses, which may be of plastic, two Manhattan specialists said. Two others, from Philadelphia's Wills Eye Hospital, reported success in 14 of the first 18 U.S. cases of cataract treated by slipping a plastic lens into the eyeball itself (TIME...
Former German Field Marshal Erich von Manstein left the British military prison in Werl on a three-month parole to enter a Kiel hospital and have a cataract removed from his left...
...salads, fruit and a slendering waistline. He still carries his railsplitter's shoulders as upright as a general, still has all his own teeth. Only his eyes are a problem: he can barely see without his thick-lensed glasses. Recently he came out of a successful operation for cataract and cracked to Pittsburgh's Mayor David Lawrence: "You know I can see through a brick wall. The girls had better start wearing heavier clothes...
...performed and office calls that were never made. One chiseler made the crude mistake of sending in a bill for surgery and office calls while the patient was actually in New York. Others got higher fees by raising the category of their work-e.g., charging for a cataract operation instead of merely draining a sty. There was wholesale chiseling by charging for imaginary X rays and laboratory tests...
...Lincoln decided that germs of what he calls Strain Alpha must somehow have been transmuted into Strain Beta, with its own phage. With two phages at hand, Dr. Lincoln went on to treat grippe and liver inflammation. Soon he spread out to treat laryngitis, tonsillitis, abscessed teeth, neuralgia, cataract and glaucoma. By 1948 he was treating cancer and tuberculosis...