Word: glaucoma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dreadful word among doctors is glaucoma, hardening of the eyeballs. Salt and water in the blood seep out of the blood vessels of the eye and into the eye's cavity. Because this salty liquid cannot escape, it jams the retina against the wall of the eye, slowly destroys the tasseled end of the optic nerve. Vision dims, blindness ensues. Drugs have proved of little help; surgery gives only temporary relief...
Last week Dr. Emanuel M. (for euphony) Josephson, Manhattan eye & ear specialist, announced in Science that he had at last ascertained the true cause of glaucoma and could cure it with a drug...
...dropped to normal, tension and pain in the eyeballs ceased and many purblind patients could see clearly for the first time in years. Pursuing a hypothesis, Dr. Josephson gave cortin to nearsighted children. In most cases their vision also promptly improved. That must mean, he decided, that myopia and glaucoma are due to the same thing...
...this week aboard the Duchess of Richmond from Liverpool to vacation in Canada. According to Dr. L. A. Swann, a London eye specialist attending the American Optometric congress in Toronto last week, "Degeneration of the eye has set in. Both the Prime Minister's eyes have been attacked by glaucoma. Because the eye is unable to throw off its natural fluids it becomes hard through tension. Blindness may result...
...Physician in Ordinary to Edward of Wales, felt no anxiety last week for the health of H. R. H., Sir Thomas consented to fly to Paris with James Ramsay MacDonald whose right eye is now causing him trouble. The Prime Minister's left eye was operated upon for glaucoma (hardening of the eyeball) in February by Surgeon Duke-Elder. Last week Surgeon Duke-Elder did not fly with Scot MacDonald but followed him by rail and Channel packet...