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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With this surgery, plus special diet and close observation, Dr. Toma and his colleagues have been able to reduce the death rate in the two homes by 75% in the last two years...
Heartened by such new facilities for geriatric surgery, Dr. Toma says: "We hear and read so much about the ghastliness of old age, of the crippled and pain-racked bodies. I don't think much of this is necessary. I think we can do for the old-timers just what we do for younger people. And I think we have the proof of this at our two homes...
...Dr. Robert H. Peckham, of Philadelphia's Temple University, got on the track of these findings during the war. As a Navy commander, he helped pick men for night-flying, spotting and gunnery duty. Servicemen at sea, or on sun-drenched coral islands, had to wear dark glasses in daytime if their eyes were to be any good at night...
Last week, Dr. Peckham reported on follow-up studies made during two summers with lifeguards at Atlantic City. What he found convinced him that overexposure of the eyes to bright sunlight creates an alarming problem...
Individuals vary widely, Dr. Peckham found, but on an average, sensitivity to light at night is reduced by more than one-third after a day at the beach without sunglasses; in some cases it is reduced by nine-tenths. The loss in sensitivity cuts down night vision in a "logarithmic proportion": the average driver loses 13% of his visual acuity, the extreme case loses...