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...Lancet, Dr. Harold Ridley, London surgeon, describes the ingenious new technique for slipping a plastic lens into the eyeball. Only the front part of the lens capsule, with the jelly, is removed; the back part of the capsule is allowed to remain as a sort of frame to keep the artificial lens from drifting farther back into the eyeball. The plastic chosen for the job (Perspex, similar to the Plexiglas used for airplane windshields) is only half as heavy as glass and is not likely to sink...
...Ridley has put such lenses into 25 eyeballs. The first two were failures because the scientists imitated nature too closely and made the artificial lens as thick as the ordinary lens. That, it turned out, was too strong. Now they make the lenses thinner. Another failure occurred with an enfeebled man of 75 whose wound did not heal. But Dr. Ridley reports that in 22 cases, the operation appears to be successful. One patient has worn his built-in lens for two years without mishap...
...experience," says Dr. Ridley, "to hear a cataract patient remark at a post-operative dressing, 'I can see the faces of all you gentlemen quite clearly.' " U.S. eye specialists are amazed by the news from London. If the plastic lenses stand up for five years without trouble, they say, it will be the greatest advance in cataract treatment since the invention of eyeglasses...
ANNA M. STAUB Ridley Park...
...Commemorating the burning of Protestant Bishops Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley in 1555, of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer...