Word: corneas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month's War Medicine by Drs. Michael J. Hogan and Joseph W. Crawford of San Francisco. Main characteristics: Small glands of the cheek and neck usually swell, and eyelid swelling may become extreme. When the swelling goes down after about three weeks, white spots may remain in the cornea, especially around the edges of the pupil. These vision disturbers take from one to three months to be absorbed. The disease is thought to be transmissible only by direct contact...
...small hemorrhages destructive of the eye's retina, though he is "able to perceive objects with the aid of strong sunlight and positive periscopic lenses." Dr. Castroviejo is, on the other hand, famed as the author of over 400 operations involving the grafting of a normal piece of cornea in a diseased eye. Reduced to one-syllable words, the doc is good but the case is bad. Chance of recovery is, in the full sense of the word, negligible...
Most of the men have kept on working, except in severe cases, where small grey specks on the cornea blur vision. Usually the disease runs its course in two to three weeks, brings no serious aftereffects...
...Vitamin B2 (riboflavin): for blindness caused by inflammation of the cornea, certain skin disorders...