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...surgical operations are older than those performed for cataract of the eye. As early as about 2000 B.C., the Code of Hammurabi ordained: "If a physician . . . open a tumor of the eye with a bronze lancet and save [the patient's] sight, he shall have ten shekels of silver ... If a physician open an abscess of the eye with a bronze lancet and the patient lose his eye, the physician shall have his fingers cut off." In his monumental monograph, Surgery of Cataract (Lippincott; $30), New York Ophthalmologist Daniel B. Kirby traces the history of operations for cataract...
...modern patients would be content with the unfocused vision of Susruta's patients (although that is often good enough for getting around the house without falling over chairs). But eye surgeons today would have little to fear under the Hammurabic Code: in 85% to 90% of cases, says Dr. Kirby, simple cataract operations result in the restoration of "good useful vision," and in the others some vision is nearly always regained...
Sartoris v. Snopes. The other Faulkner world is the one he has made his own: mythical Yoknapatawpha County in northern Mississippi, a landscape haunted by an unsettled past and an unwanted future. The past survives in the memory of the old South, its code of courage and chivalry, its moral stain of slavery. The future is the creeping new world of Northern commerce and industry; in Faulkner's view, it promises to make life impersonal, mechanized and "depthless...
...together one of the finest collections of old masters in existence (TIME, Feb. 14,1949). Neither of his distinctions was achieved without a knowledge of the ground rules. Last week, to get some ground rules changed, Collector Gulbenkian had the busy U.S. Congress amending the Internal Revenue Code for him. The change would also work out for the benefit of U.S. art lovers...
Under the present code, Gulbenkian had pointed out, U.S. inheritance taxes must be paid on foreign-owned works of art if the owner dies while the art is on loan in the U.S. Gulbenkian was perfectly willing to let Washington's National Gallery display 41 of his old masters (including some priceless Rembrandts and Rubenses once owned by the czars). But if the National Gallery wanted to keep the paintings for any "appreciable" time, the code would have to be fixed...