Word: glaucoma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...given by an eminent interracial group of specialists. In the mornings they talked in highly technical terms to fellow specialists; afternoons they tackled the general practitioner's problems. "After all," said Dr. Johnson, "there's no use having ophthalmologists if the G.P. doesn't recognize glaucoma in time to send the patient to the specialist before he goes blind...
...catalogue. From left to right, he diagnoses pronounced pemphigus (a skin disease) localized around the eyes, which has caused opaque corneas; some form of blindness in which bright light is painful (the figure's hat is pulled down over his eyes); atrophy of the eyeballs, probably caused by glaucoma or panophthalmia; corneal leukoma (corneas thickened from an ulcer, wound or inflammation); and enucleation (surgical removal of eyes...
Thousands of Americans over 40 who conscientiously have regular medical checkups are getting a clean bill of health when actually they are suffering from an insidious disease that may cause blindness. So said a Memphis ophthalmologist last week at a sight-saving conference* in Manhattan. The often overlooked disease: glaucoma. Reported the University of Tennessee's Dr. Margaret Horsley, after a five-month 'study just completed at the John Gaston Hospital's clinics: 44 cases of glaucoma were found among patients who did not suspect that they had anything wrong with their eyes...
...Glaucoma results from an increase in the pressure of the watery fluid inside the eyeball, which ''backs up" because it gets into the eye in normal amounts but cannot drain out fast enough through narrowed or diseased channels. It usually begins painlessly, and in such cases the first sign of its onset is the loss of side vision. Said Dr. Horsley: "The unsuspecting victim is sometimes almost completely blind before he realizes his visual loss. It is heartbreaking to have to tell these patients that they will never be able to regain the sight they have lost...
Taken in hand early, glaucoma can be effectively controlled in most cases. For the majority of patients, specially prescribed eye drops will lower the pressure to normal. In certain cases, where drugs do not reduce the tension sufficiently, surgery is often useful. Of victims who did not get treatment in time, 40,000 are now blind and 150,000 partially blind; estimates of U.S. glaucoma victims runs as high as a million, with half of them unaware that they have...