Word: retina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When'that happened, Publisher Pulitzer was 42; it remained dark for the rest of his life. What impaired his eyesight was detachment of the retina. Noises aggravated his condition. When he got back to the U. S. his doctors told him he would have to retire. Publisher Pulitzer gave up active management of the World but continued to run it through subordinates. In Manhattan his house contained a sound proof room designed by Stanford White. By 1898, he was nearly blind. Of the things that filled the World from then until he died in 1911 - War with Spain...
...three-month fight by Westchester County doctors, lawyers and welfare workers to gain custody of two-year-old Helen Vasko long enough for surgeons to remove the child's left eye. Last January in Grasslands Hospital it was discovered that she had a malignant tumor on the retina, that she would die as soon as the growth reached her brain, perhaps within a month...
...your information-a cataract is an opacity of the crystalline lens- that powerful and highly transparent little lens within the eye whose function it is to bring rays of light to a focus upon the retina. Due to injury, extreme heat, or any one of a number of causes, this lens may become translucent and eventually opaque. Since all rays of light must pass through the crystalline lens to be received upon the retina, it is easy to see how a loss of transparency results in serious impairment to the vision. Science knows of no way to remove a lenticular...
...about brains pointed out by Harvard's Stanley Cobb: the brain of a sedentary brain-worker uses up more energy when he works than do his legs when he exercises outdoors; blood flows through the brain arteries faster than through any part of the body except the eye retina; the pressure of cerebrospinal fluid on the brain is five or six times greater when a man lies prone than when he stands upright; "it seems probable that the brain has a rather high metabolism when compared to other organs or to the body as a whole...
...Apparatus for research in spectroscopy, sound, vacuum-tube phenomena, and electric response of the retina when stimulated by light...