Word: glaucoma
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...allergic to penicillin or tetanus antitoxin may die within minutes after an injection which is routinely given to accident victims. Heart patients on a precise digitalis dosage and arthritics on steroid hormones are in serious danger if their medication is suddenly stopped. Atropine, or similar drugs, given to glaucoma patients may contribute to blindness...
...Restoration, a stylish Spanish-American who while a Paris schoolgirl became the first woman solo balloonist in 1903 by piloting a prop-powered dirigible across the Bois de Boulogne, displayed the same pluck in her lifelong welfare work, raising more than $3,000,000, though nearly blind herself from glaucoma, for the U.S.'s first major ophthalmological institute, opened in 1929, and in 1945 its first national eye bank; after a long illness; in Bedford...
...reason, racism runs stronger in New Orleans than in St. Louis. For another, Rummers health has long been failing: besides suffering from glaucoma, he nearly died in 1960 of pneumonia, after a fall in which he broke an arm and a leg. But now New Orleans' public schools have been integrated, in token fashion, for more than a year, and last month Rummel ordered that the city's Catholic schools, which enroll almost half of New Orleans' white students, be completely desegregated in September. Privately, many Catholics credit Rummel's stiff stand to the influence...
...Glaucoma can be detected cheaply and painlessly in a few seconds, but more than 500,000 Americans have the disease in an early and unrecognized form; all will suffer severe loss of vision, and each year about 4,500 are blinded...
...circles, with the reading prescription on the outside (this type can rotate freely). When the eye has lost its own lens because of a cataract operation, a contact can help in many cases to supply the tremendous correction needed. Another type is being tried in the early stages of glaucoma. There is evidence that contacts may slow down the progression of myopia, and hope that they may actually reverse it in the young...