Word: strabismus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
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