Word: irises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In 1887 Edward Bausch invented the iris diaphragm shutter which made the snapshot camera practical. Later he made a deal with the late great Ernst Abbe, head of the Carl Zeiss Works of Jena, to make Zeiss prism binoculars in the U. S., trading Bausch manufacturing for Zeiss research facilities...
Dr. DeWitt essayed the unusual operation to give four-year-old Clare Brett a perfect pupil. With equipment which he declared did not exist until three years ago, and which he would not describe, Dr. DeWitt mended the child's iris.
The iris is a delicate, loosely meshed mat of tiny blood vessels, nerves, muscles and flimsy connective tissue. A circular system of muscles around the pupil opening acts as a draw string to decrease the size of the pupil in bright light. Radiating from the outer circumference of the iris...
Because the iris is so fragile a fabric of vessels, nerves and muscles, it is difficult to hold the sutures with which an eye surgeon might attempt to mend a tear. Ordinarily the surgeon contents himself with cutting off the loosened bits of iris and guarding the eye against infection...
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