Word: retina
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Transoceanic Ophthalmoscopy. The travelers far from home need not feel entirely at the mercy of foreign doctors, even if their ailment is something requiring microscopic examination. One Ernestino Dodd of Buenos Aires was in Berlin when his eyes went bad. A photograph of his retina was radioed 7,200 mi. to his own, trusted specialist, who within the hour called back advising his Patient Dodd to have an operation immediately...
...Eyes contain in the retina red, yellow and almost colorless green globules, which may be important in the undetermined mechanism of color vision, stated London's Herbert Eldon Roaf...
...substances, with special reference to their treatment of malignant disease. Professor P. W. Bridgman '04 is carrying on an investigation of compressibilities and thermal conductivities which are of considerable use to the geologist Professor F. I. Chaffee 11 has been measuring for several years the electrical response of the retina to light stimulation, a subject which has an important relation to our knowledge of the mechanism of visitor...
...glass eye soon would be set. His extracted eye had had a tumor. His other eye was good. But Nordic Ferguson's other eye was bad. It bore a cataract, an opaque thickening of the cornea that prevented light images going through his pupil and striking upon his retina. So hopeless was his case that he had become an inmate of Manhattan's Home for the Blind. And he is only...
While the problem has been treated before, the use of the amplifier for the purpose is an innovation which has made it possible to obtain new results. The greatest of these have been secured with the retina of frogs. There are still some outstanding questions of importance which can be settled only by experimenting with eyes of other animals. This is the line of attack planned for the immediate future...