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...green boater has no business in these waters. But an old pro-such as A'Delbert Frank Rich, 41, a Cedar City optometrist and twelve-year boating veteran-should have been safe enough. Aboard his 15-ft., red-and-white cruiser he confidently brought his wife Penney, 35, and his parents, Frank, 65, and Lillian...
Last week Manhattan's equally fertile and inventive Optometrist William Feinbloom (TIME, Jan. 2, 1933 et seq.) told a Buffalo gathering of optometrists how he had adapted the Fresnel lens to make trioptic spectacles for the near-blind. Feinbloom has concentrated for decades on the problem of 500,000 Americans who are legally blind (less than 10% useful vision), but who could read and work if only they could get the right glasses. Previous Feinbloom inventions supplied correction for only one focal range (close work such as reading and sewing, middle range for dressing and household tasks, or distance...
Last week Optometrist Newton K. Wesley of Chicago's Eye Research Foundation announced an ingenious solution: a bifocal contact lens with the distant-vision prescription in the center, enclosed by a surrounding area that corrects for closeup reading. Rotation therefore makes no difference. Wesley, who tried the first pair on himself, reports that 65 people who have worn the new lenses for as long as five months are enthusiastic. If they look straight ahead with eyes wide open, they see through the center lens. When they look down, the contact lens rises, so that they see through the outer...
...small, plastic contact lenses that cover only the eye's cornea became available in 1939, some doctors began to see such cases. So far no ophthalmologist (M.D.) has published these findings, though several report them privately. Last week, at a National Contact Lens Congress in Manhattan, an optometrist from Harrisburg, Pa., Dr. Robert J. Morrison, reported on 1,100 myopes, aged seven to 19, whom he had fitted with contact lenses, and which they wore all their waking hours. After a minimum of two years' observation of each case, Dr. Morrison saw none in which the myopia...
...cost as much as $50,000. The complete facilities, however, will eventually be purchased for the new center, and could easily be transferred to the central infirmary from a temporary location. If full time eye care is too expensive for the present, the Department should at least have an optometrist visit Harvard once a week and supply him with the less costly equipment needed to fit glasses. When more uncommon disorders occur, students could go to Boston as they do now. Such a temporary eye clinic, financed through the regular Medical Fee, could offer effective method of eye care until...