Word: schreck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...least, so Dr. Schreck hopes. He has been watching some patients with glass inserts in their eyes for almost two years...