Word: plasticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When British Surgeon Harold Ridley took the daring step of implanting a tiny plastic lens inside the eye of a patient operated on for a cataract (TIME...
...seemed that medical science had won a great victory in the 3,000-year battle to save elderly clouded eyes. For two years the results looked good. Then an unexpected drawback appeared: some of the plastic lenses slipped out of place, into the middle of the eyeball...
...German ophthalmologist, Er-langen's Professor Eugen Schreck, reports a danger-free adaptation of the Ridley technique. Instead of following nature closely, as did Ridley, in putting the plastic lens behind the iris, in the position of the removed natural lens, Surgeon Schreck puts his lens in front of the iris...
...instead of plastic, he uses a glass lens. Only 5 mm. in diameter, the circular lens has wings (Schreck calls them "bridges") that give it an overall width of 11½ to 13½ mm., according to the size of the eyeball. The wings fit into the angles where the iris is attached, and hold the lens steady so that it can never fall back into the eyeball...
...Clay continues as chairman. A strapping (6 ft. 3 in., 207 Ibs.), jovial packaging expert, Fogarty was born in Rockland, Mass., graduated from Harvard ('22). He joined Continental Can in 1929, became package designer, rose steadily. To keep Continental Can growing, Fogarty will continue diversifying into paper and plastic containers, expects to cut production costs with a new all-steel can for food products that replaces tin linings with enamel...