Word: glaucoma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another performance which fascinated the convention was Dr. Otto Barkan's operation for chronic glaucoma. In this disease the tiny drain called "canal of Schlemm" becomes clogged. It cannot carry away excess fluid which accumulates within the ball of the eye. Internal pressure eventually atrophies the optic nerve, causes blindness. The usual operation for glaucoma punctures the eyeball daintily, lets accumulated fluid escape. However, in many cases the hole soon seals itself, necessitating further operation. Dr. Barkan found that blockade of the canal of Schlemm is often due to grains of pigment which slip in from the iris...
...read with much interest in TIME, Aug. 12, a letter from Dr. H. Maxwell Langdon in reference to cortin and glaucoma, and holding the opposite view from that of Dr. Langdon I dash madly to the rescue of beleaguered TIME...
...obvious from Professor Langdon's letter in the last issue of TIME [Aug. 12] that he has fallen into the error of confusing adrenaline and the adrenal cortex hormone. . . . Indeed, adrenaline has long since been abandoned by many ophthalmologists as a dangerous drug in glaucoma...
Adrenalin & Cortin Sirs: In TIME, July 29, Medicine, you have an article on ''Cortin for Glaucoma." . . , I have been practicing ophthalmology since October 1902 and am one of the Professors of Diseases of the Eye in the Graduate School of Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania. I have a great many people afflicted with glaucoma under my care, and you have no idea the harm such an article does...
Adrenalin has been used in glaucoma for at least 20 years and in acute elevation of intra ocular pressure is a very helpful drug. The effect of cortin as distinguished from adrenalin is not definitely known at the present time. There is too little evidence to justify an article in a public magazine on it. It at present should be confined entirely to medical publications where the hopes of the public would not be unjustifiably raised and a great deal of emotional stress stirred up and the emotions have a great deal to do with raising intraocular pressure. Anyone...