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Charles I. Maidanick '56, the most seriously injured, was rushed to Massachusetts General Hospital, where doctors worked for two hours removing pieces of glass imbedded in his face. One of the pieces, lodged in the cornea of his left eye, could not be extricated at the time...
...Honor Major General William F. Dean, 54, brushing aside rumors that he might retire ("I'm not an old man yet"), flew from his California home to Washington for reassignment and a minor eye operation. Korean dirt, dust and wind had caused a skin growth on the cornea of his left eye. It began two months before the Communists captured him, he said. "You can't blame the Reds...
...Cortisone is extremely useful in many eye infections because it prevents scarring of the cornea, but it has no power to kill the germs. Now the Upjohn Co. has combined cortisone with the antibiotic neomycin, expects the two-way treatment to be especially valuable in pinkeye...
...patient was placed on the table, an assistant washed the clouded eye with a mercury solution and applied a few drops of anesthetic. Then, while another assistant held a flashlight, the surgeon slipped his knife into the patient's eyeball at the exact junction of the transparent cornea and the white sclera. With a snip of his scissors, he cut out a tiny section of the iris. Then, with a deft motion, he flipped out the cataract-clouded lens. One of the assistants slapped a wad soaked with boric acid on the eye, tied a bandage in place...
...profession until the outbreak of World War II. Then Peter went to North Africa as a commando and contracted an infection in the other eye. From 1942 on, Lucky Beatty had gone from one operation to another trying desperately to retrieve his waning sight. Last month a cornea transplantation in Geneva gave him brief hope. Soon afterward the darkness set in again...