Word: ophthalmologists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thousands of Americans over 40 who conscientiously have regular medical checkups are getting a clean bill of health when actually they are suffering from an insidious disease that may cause blindness. So said a Memphis ophthalmologist last week at a sight-saving conference* in Manhattan. The often overlooked disease: glaucoma. Reported the University of Tennessee's Dr. Margaret Horsley, after a five-month 'study just completed at the John Gaston Hospital's clinics: 44 cases of glaucoma were found among patients who did not suspect that they had anything wrong with their eyes...
This was first established in 1941 by an Australian ophthalmologist, Norman McAlister Gregg, who found that many of his infant patients with cataracts and other defects were born a few months after their mothers had German measles. The question remained just how frequently the disease causes such damage. Now Harvard University's Dr. Theodore H. Ingalls has an answer, based on detailed checkups of what happened to the fetus in 147 Massachusetts cases of rubella in the first three months of pregnancy. The statistical result: almost 15% stillbirths, an equal number with severe deformity or crippling...
Developed by French Ophthalmologist François Paycha, it is a compact, shiny affair like the business machines that keep records on punch cards. A student of cybernetics and automation, Paycha picked diseases of the cornea for his test effort. He punched hundreds of cards for the various symptoms and characteristics of corneal disease. Then he examined a patient, asked the usual questions and recorded the findings by hitting selected keys from 200 on the machine's keyboard. Examples: no ulceration (a negative sign can be as important as the positive), deep-seated opacity, deep-seated blood vessels...
Making music seems to have a special appeal for doctors; there is a similar doctors' orchestra in Los Angeles, and doctors' chamber groups are innumerable. Says Ophthalmologist Alfred E. Mamelock (clarinet), president of the New York doctors' orchestra: "The taste for medicine and the taste for music are the same kind of thing. Medicine is an art as much as it is a science, if not more...
...German ophthalmologist, Er-langen's Professor Eugen Schreck, reports a danger-free adaptation of the Ridley technique. Instead of following nature closely, as did Ridley, in putting the plastic lens behind the iris, in the position of the removed natural lens, Surgeon Schreck puts his lens in front of the iris...