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...doctor in such cases, Thorndike states, should have complete "knowledge of the degree of the tear and the amount of fibrous scar produced in the healing process...
...mysterious disease is retrolental fibroplasia (RLF), in which there is a fibrous thickening of tissue behind the lens in the eye. Nobody knows the cause. The effect is to becloud the retina, the screen on which the lens focuses its image of things seen. Often the retina itself is changed beyond recognition: doctors are far from agreement on the signs of the disease, and some wonder whether they are dealing with two or more diseases...
...These enzymes-streptokinase and streptodornase-also clean out waste matter from wounds and infections, say four Johns Hopkins doctors in the current A.M.A. Journal. In tests on 85 patients with ailments varying from bedsores to osteomyelitis, the Johns Hopkins doctors found that streptokinase worked effectively to dissolve the tough fibrous matter in blood clots, while streptodornase did its work on dead cells and pus. In no case did either chemical harm the living cells...
Another exhibit shows bark cloth (tapa). The Pacific islanders made it by pounding the fibrous inner bark of certain trees. So did Indians in Nicaragua and Mexico. The cloth of both hemispheres is the same papery stuff, and the wood and stone pounding tools the two peoples used (shown in the exhibit) are so similar that they might have been made by the same...
...York City with twin boys who were already seven months old. Andrew Hoffmann and his pretty blonde wife thought both boys were blind, but at Presbyterian Hospital it was found that Dennis had some vision. On Kenneth, who had none, an ophthalmologist operated to remove part of the fibrous tissue. He believed that it was not the retina, but that the retina was shriveled and displaced. By last week, Dennis Hoffmann's vision was-improving slowly, but Kenneth was still sightless...