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...glass eye soon would be set. His extracted eye had had a tumor. His other eye was good. But Nordic Ferguson's other eye was bad. It bore a cataract, an opaque thickening of the cornea that prevented light images going through his pupil and striking upon his retina. So hopeless was his case that he had become an inmate of Manhattan's Home for the Blind. And he is only...
While psychologists have been attempting to explain the eye in all its workings, Professor E. L. Chaffee A.M. '08 has been engaged in experiments on a single portion, the retina. The belief that the physical approach to an understanding of the eye will produce more rapid results than psychological experiments has actuated Professor Chaffee. Now after several years' aid from the Cancer Commission, he is enabled by the Milton awards to continue his experiments for another year...
...present time there are 26 theories of color vision held by scientists and physicians. Experiments which attempt a psychological explanation of the ocular mechanism have been very drawn out, and as yet not altogether conclusive. Progress in experimentation upon the retina of the eye with a sensitive vacuum tube amplifier connected to a recording galvanometer has been unusually rapid...
While the problem has been treated before, the use of the amplifier for the purpose is an innovation which has made it possible to obtain new results. The greatest of these have been secured with the retina of frogs. There are still some outstanding questions of importance which can be settled only by experimenting with eyes of other animals. This is the line of attack planned for the immediate future...
...Physical Colloquium to be held this afternoon in Room 3 of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory at 5 o'clock, Professor E. L. Chaffee will speak on "Electrical Response of the Retina to Stimulation by Light...