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...moratorium bespeaks an energy which Gilbert never possessed!" For his part Dr. Schacht, who works, eats and sleeps at the Reichsbank, had an elaborate thesis of accusation which he read out in the Reichsbank Central Com mittee Chamber, directly under his bed room. Drawing a deep breath for the cataract of words he was about to utter, Dr. Schacht cried: "Now that our colonies which were attaining before the War to increasing importance as sources of raw materials have been taken away in a fashion that practically excludes Germany as an exporter to these colonies, now that our major competitors...
King Prajadhipok of Siam bedded himself in a private London clinic where Sir Stewart Duke-Eldor probed from his left eye a reformation of the cataract which the King had removed in Manhattan three years ago (TIME, May 18, 1931). King Prajadhipok will sail for the U. S. Sept. 8, to undergo a cataractomy on his right...
...Another cataract must be lifted from the royal eyes. Siamese surgeons again shirk the job. Presumably it will be done by famed Manhattan ophthalmologist Dr. John Martin Wheeler who operated successfully on King Prajadhipok...
Your footnote, "When Siamese King Prajadhipok journeyed to the U. S. to have a cataract scraped from his eyes. . . ." (TIME, March 6) makes it apparent that you share with many others the erroneous idea that a cataract is a "growth over the eye," and that the way to remove it is to "scrape...
...your information-a cataract is an opacity of the crystalline lens- that powerful and highly transparent little lens within the eye whose function it is to bring rays of light to a focus upon the retina. Due to injury, extreme heat, or any one of a number of causes, this lens may become translucent and eventually opaque. Since all rays of light must pass through the crystalline lens to be received upon the retina, it is easy to see how a loss of transparency results in serious impairment to the vision. Science knows of no way to remove a lenticular...