Word: optic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Riley Spitler of Eton, Ohio declared his belief that light of certain colors, relaxing or stimulating the optic nerves, may affect the entire nervous system. He recommended red for increasing blood pressure and curing dizziness, yellowish green or bluish green for stomach disorders, blue or violet for headaches...
...Lawyer Tom Schall was blinded by a shock from an electric cigar lighter which paralyzed his optic nerve. Not until 1914, however, did he enter politics, a career in which blindness was to prove an asset rather than a liability. For ten years he sat in the House. Minnesota elected him to the Senate...
...bright pink retina of the eye can be photographed straight through the pupil with a Zeiss retinal camera. As reference points for classification, veins are chosen in preference to arteries because they are thicker and show up darker in photographs. The main vein which enters the eyeball with the optic nerve branches in two, and each branch again forks, providing four prominent veins meandering across the retina in irregular directions.* The entrance point of the optic nerve itself is taken as a point of reference. The distances and directions of the vein forks from this reference point provide coordinates which...
...hardening of the eyeballs. Salt and water in the blood seep out of the blood vessels of the eye and into the eye's cavity. Because this salty liquid cannot escape, it jams the retina against the wall of the eye, slowly destroys the tasseled end of the optic nerve. Vision dims, blindness ensues. Drugs have proved of little help; surgery gives only temporary relief...
...feast days. Of the cures registered and checked by physicians before and after every health-seeking visit, none is a "first class" miracle involving growth of new bone tissue. Typical "second class" cures reported from the Oratory are restoration of sight lost from atrophied optic nerves, healing of tuberculosis, cancer, gangrene, paralysis, rheumatism. Now 89, frail, wrinkled Brother Andre is still officially no more than "caretaker" of the shrine. To visitors who seek him out as they did last week he invariably says...