Word: optometrist
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...formerly a subscriber to TIME and have often been tempted, while listening to your excellent radio program, to resume my use of the magazine. But last night's program starting, as I remember it, with the description of the scenes enacted in an optometrist's office by poor, almost blind, unfortunates who look for miraculous results from the use of telescopic spectacles, has made me change my mind...
Telescopic spectacles have been in use for a number of years and as far as can be learned from the press, the optometrist in question has only added a cylindrical correction to the well known Zeiss telescopic spectacles...
TIME reported the American Academy of Optometry's $1,000 award to Dr. William Feinbloom, optometrist of Manhattan's West Side Hospital, for his telescopic spectacles with triple cylindrical (instead of spherical) lenses which in some cases enabled 98%-blind patients to see well enough to work. Zeiss telescopic spectacles, not new, have been shown helpful in about 3% of clinical cases. Dr. Feinbloom's development is new, still of debated importance. The Journal of the American Medical Association last fortnight advised "strenuous protests" against Dr. Feinbloom's "socalled improvement." The American Foundation for the Blind...
...Feinbloom, chief optometrist of Manhattan's West Side Hospital, applied himself to the problem of making a pair of spectacles which would magnify things, yet keep them at their distance...
Mark was an accurate reporter, testified one Earl Musselman of Philadelphia last week. Earl Musselman's blind eyes were opened just in time to see this year's Easter bonnets. Aged 22, he had been blind since birth. His uncle, a Philadelphia optometrist with whom he lived, believed that the cataracts which caused the trouble might be removed. Dr. George Henry Moore, Philadelphia eye specialist, consented to perform the difficult, delicate operations.* Last week Earl Musselman removed the bandages and, like the Bethsaidan, saw things differently than he had imagined them...