Word: ophthalmologists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Weihaiwei, China, tutor and counselor to the deposed Boy Emperor Henry Pu Yi (now Emperor Kang Te of Manchukuo); in Edinburgh, Scotland. Sir Reginald westernized his Manchu charge-watched Pu Yi cut off his pigtail, gave him the Christian name Henry, had his eyes treated by an American ophthalmologist despite the Dowager Empress' threat to give herself an overdose of opium if her son used spectacles...
Just about the time when Mr. Howard Chandler Christy's blindness is alleged to have been overcome, and his sight restored through Christian Science, Dr. Park Lewis of Buffalo, N. Y., a noted ophthalmologist, was busy with the formation of an organization now known as the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness. Dr. Park Lewis is vice president of both this Society and the International Association for Prevention of Blindness which he was active in establishing at The Hague in 1929. We have asked him to comment on the letter of Mr. B. Palmer Lewis, and it occurs...
...been taxed out of existence father 73 sons in the class. Last year the number in this group was 101, so it can readily be soon that a student i this category will soon be as rare as the "Laster's" son, or the boy whose father is an "ophthalmologist...
...years (1920-26), Dr. Simon was a New York City deputy police commissioner. Later he had a laboratory on the Bowery for psychiatric examination of Manhattan's human flotsam. The eye-pattern idea was suggested to him by Dr. Isadore Goldstein, ophthalmologist of Mount Sinai Hospital, who in working out the system took care of the anatomical angle. Drs. Simon and Goldstein were joined by a small grey man named Allan Broms, an expert handler of charts and graphs...
...Francis' eye ailment probably was trachoma, an ancient Egyptian affliction. For it St. Francis' physicians applied eye bindings, salves, plasters and urina virginis pueri, the sovereign eye wash which later became the favorite collyrium of that great medieval Spanish ophthalmologist who became Pope John XXI. In final resort the doctors applied hot irons to the Saint's face...