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...correct these conditions would be to change the curvature of the cornea so the images fall directly on the retina. The pioneer of surgery that accomplishes that optical feat is Ophthalmologist José Barraquer of Bogotá, Colombia, who for the past two decades has been performing a variety of delicate and complex corneal operations that he calls refractive keratoplasty (an operation on the cornea for optical reasons). In one procedure known as keratomileusis (cornea carving), the front of the cornea is sliced off with a high-speed vibrating blade, quickly frozen, and then reshaped on its underside...
...still newer and more controversial corneal operation was developed by Soviet Ophthalmologist Svyatoslav Fyodorov. In 1973 he examined a nearsighted 16-year-old youth whose glasses had been smashed in a fight. The shards had cut the cornea of one eye. Three days later the boy could see perfectly out of the eye-without glasses. The injury had inadvertently flattened the cornea...
They were General Julio Gutiérrez, 65, a national guard officer now serving as military attaché at his country's embassy in Japan; Dr. Emilio Alvarez Montalván, 57, a Conservative Party politician and ophthalmologist; Jaime Chamorro Cardenal, 46, an engineer, and brother of the late anti-Somoza newspaper editor Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, whose widow is already a member of the junta; Mariano Fiallos Oyanguren, 45, rector of the University of Nicaragua; and Ernesto Fernández Holmann, 38, a banker and economist. The names were intended for San José, where junta members would...
...earliest researchers to express concern over microwaves was a New York ophthalmologist, Dr. Milton Zaret, who warned more than a decade ago that even low-level exposure could produce a peculiar type of cataract, or clouding, on the rear surface of the lens. (The lens is especially vulnerable to microwave "cooking" because it has no blood vessels to carry off heat.) In 1968 the Department of Health, Education and Welfare said that another organ was vulnerable as well: the testes, because only slight temperature changes can affect the sperm-producing process...
...improvements may indeed occur, but they point out that they are at best temporary, and that the cornea will eventually spring back to its old shape. They also worry that the treatment, especially in the hands of less skilled practitioners, can cause permanent astigmatism and other eye damage. Says Ophthalmologist G. Peter Halberg, a specialist in contact lenses at St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan: "Properly presented and investigated, orthokeratology could be acceptable some time in the future. There's a lot of chaff and some grain, and we are in the process of separating the grain from...