Word: svyatoslav
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...still newer and more controversial corneal operation was developed by Soviet Ophthalmologist Svyatoslav Fyodorov. In 1973 he examined a nearsighted 16-year-old youth whose glasses had been smashed in a fight. The shards had cut the cornea of one eye. Three days later the boy could see perfectly out of the eye-without glasses. The injury had inadvertently flattened the cornea...