Word: ophthalmologists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sightseeing during an atomic bombing is unwise; it may destroy the sight of anyone who is otherwise safe from the heat and blast. This is the warning of Ophthalmologist Heinrich W. Rose and Biophysicist Konrad Buettner, who looked into the matter at the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine...
...notion that a cross-eyed child "will grow out of it" is a "vicious bit of misinformation," declared Ophthalmologist Richard G. Scobee of St. Louis. Besides creating difficulties in learning, the child's handicap sets him apart from playmates and often leaves a deep emotional scar. Dr. Scobee's advice: have it treated promptly, even if surgery is needed...
...never occurred to Ophthalmologist William B. Small of Waterloo, Iowa, a prominent Methodist layman, that the answer might be difficult. When he died in 1939, his will directed that the income from $75,000 of his estate should be distributed "to persons who believe in the fundamental principles of the Christian religion and in the Bible and who are endeavoring to promulgate same." When his wife died in 1949, ten nephews and nieces sued to break the will. Their argument: "There is no common agreement as to what constitutes the fundamental principles of Christianity...
...patient's] sight, he shall have ten shekels of silver ... If a physician open an abscess of the eye with a bronze lancet and the patient lose his eye, the physician shall have his fingers cut off." In his monumental monograph, Surgery of Cataract (Lippincott; $30), New York Ophthalmologist Daniel B. Kirby traces the history of operations for cataract (a clouding of the eye's lens) from these harsh beginnings to such present-day refinements as air-conditioned operating rooms and parallel-beam light...