Word: eyelids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Roll Back the Lid. It was 10 a.m. when Tomiko took her place in the busy waiting room. Within 15 minutes she was explaining to a doctor that she would like a double eyelid operation. Examination showed no reason why the girl should not have the operation (technically, blepha-roplasty). A nurse rubbed a local anesthetic ointment onto her eyelids. By 10:45 she was in the operating room...
With a small hypodermic, the surgeon injected a second anesthetic, procaine, into the upper eyelid. A nurse peeled the lid back. The surgeon gripped the muscle on the inside of the eyelid with pincers, pulled it out slightly, and clamped it to the skin near the roots of the lashes at the edge of the lid. Then, with hair-thin nylon thread, he stitched the muscle down. The eyelid was rolled back, covered with a cold cloth as the surgeon went to work on the other eye. Total operating time: five minutes...
Rounder & Bigger. What Westerners think of as the slanting set of Orientals' eyes cannot be entirely changed by minor surgery, but it becomes less conspicuous after the eyelid operation; by exposing more of the eyeballs, the operation makes the eyes seem rounder and bigger, also forces the eyelashes from slanting downward to pointing upward. Within a couple of days, Tomiko was telling her friends: "You've got to go, too. It's so simple, it's almost unbelievable...
Working at a U.S. Army hospital in Augsburg, West Germany, Major Vernon M. Smith put one drop of standard penicillin solution inside the lower eyelid of his subjects, and another drop on a light scratch made on the arm with a hypodermic needle. If within 20 minutes the eye did not become red, itchy or swollen, and if the inflamed area on the arm was no more than 1 cm. in diameter, it was considered safe to give the subject a full shot of the antibiotic. Only one man had a mild unfavorable reaction to the test itself; of more...
...spite of what may be called a broad style, Kokoschka is aware of details, even of what appear to be insignificant things like the way the line of the eyelid moves into the angle of the nose. Kokoschka explains, "I will teach them to see again; this is the faculty lost to modern society...