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...more than 3,000 years, doctors were balked in their efforts to restore anything like normal vision to elderly eyes clouded by cataracts. In modern times they have been able to cut into the eyeball, remove the cataract-clouded lens, and try to make up for the loss of the lens by spectacles. But they have not dared to insert a substitute in the eyeball. Now a British eye surgeon reports a way to do just that: a carefully ground lens made of plastic is slipped into the eyeball during the operation and stays there...
...lens in the normal eye is a jelly-filled capsule of a tough material resembling Cellophane. A cataract is a clouding of this normally transparent lens (see diagram); as the clouding gets denser, less & less light gets through to the retina. Sometimes the whole lens is removed, sometimes only a part, with the clouded jelly. In either case, external lenses (i.e., special glasses) with limited focusing range have been necessary...
...experience," says Dr. Ridley, "to hear a cataract patient remark at a post-operative dressing, 'I can see the faces of all you gentlemen quite clearly.' " U.S. eye specialists are amazed by the news from London. If the plastic lenses stand up for five years without trouble, they say, it will be the greatest advance in cataract treatment since the invention of eyeglasses...
...lost his left eye when one of his brothers accidentally shot him with an arrow. For about the next 40 years, his right eye did double duty, then it failed him; ten years ago, Thurber underwent five extremely painful operations on it for cataract and trachoma. The eye has since had one-eighth vision, not enough for a 56-year-old writer to get himself around with safety. The shins of the long, gangling (6 ft. 1½ in., 154 Ibs.) Thurber bear a mass of scars from collisions with coffee tables...
...were killed and 63 injured.* At week's end there was no official explanation of the wreck. But a doctor who examined the Red Arrow's 62-year-old Engineman F. B. Yentzler after the wreck reported that he was suffering from what appeared to be a cataract, and from all initial tests, was virtually blind in his right...