Word: strabismus
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...Koster, 74, of Beaumont, Texas, had her last injection of Oculinum in May. "It was a miracle," she exclaims, "the thrill of being able to open my eyes. Now I see through slits, when I can see." Other patients who used Oculinum, including some suffering from crossed eyes (strabismus) or muscle spasms of the face, neck and vocal cords, are clamoring for the drug. Says Neurologist Joseph Jankovic of the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston: "All of our patients have reversed to their original condition...
Despite their esoteric quality, such experiments can have an immediate practical value: some infants suffer from eye ailments, such as cataracts, severe astigmatism and strabismus, which benefit from treatment much earlier than would once have been possible. No less important, the new research has demonstrated that an impairment of infant vision can damage those parts of the rapidly growing brain that rely on visual information. That brain damage can be permanent unless the eye impairment is treated early...
...Jules Stein, chairman of RPB, said the findings of Hubel and Wiesel are having a revolutionary influence in the treatment of a number of blinding conditions in the very young, including strabismus--commonly known as crossed eyes--a condition in which the two eyes do not operate in concert to produce a single image...
Hubel said that most opthamologists like to wait until a child is about eight years old before operating to correct strabismus. "If you're going to do it, however, you have to do it at a very young age--when the child is about a year old. At the age of eight, there isn't much recovery," he said...
...Piccadilly. But the dimout proved only a flicker less black than the blackout. In a bit of nonsense that was also an exasperated travesty on Government rules, regulation and confusion, the Daily Express' "Beachcomber" (J. B. Morton) said what most Londoners thought. He wrote: "The Strabismus plan for a half-dim (partial) blackout is now completed and may soon come into operation. The idea is to black out partially half of every window but only with a mild form of blackout. In cases where the left half of the window is made partially dim, the right half must...
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