Word: retina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Doctors who gave up using ACTH for some common eye diseases quit too soon, two Michigan researchers told the Association of American Physicians. For inflammation of the optic nerve, and also for degenerative diseases of the choroid and retina, ACTH can be given for a year or two, may then restore 20-20 vision to patients who have been almost blind...
According to Britain's Nature, copying the principle used in the compound eyes of insects may get around this difficulty. Instead of having a single lens, as human eyes do, to focus an image on the retina, insect eyes have many fine tubes, each tipped with a small lens. Each lens views a small part of a wide field, and the light that enters the lenses follows the tubes and forms a mosaic image. Some of the tubes are curved, but the light follows them just the same...
...dangerous weeks after birth. But by 1942, medical statisticians were already calculating the cost. Of premature babies who weighed 4 Ibs. or less at birth, one out of every eight reared in hospital incubators was going blind. Suddenly, and for no apparent reason, the blood vessels of the retina would fan out in wild profusion. Fibrous tissue growing behind the lens would cloud the eyes and ruin the retina. Doctors were baffled. They could do little more than tag the disease with a name, retrolental fibroplasia (R.L.F...
Spanish Concert Guitarist Andrés Segovia, last reported in a Madrid hospital for a detached-retina operation (TIME, Aug. 3), was up and about with exciting news: "My operation was completely successful, thank God, thanks to the skill of the doctors and thanks to my 'good-natured nature...
...Madrid, Spanish Concert Guitarist Andres Segovia, 59, was rushed to the hospital for surgery after suffering a sudden detachment of the retina of his right eye. With his left eye also in danger, weeks will pass before Segovia's doctors can tell whether his eyesight will be saved. Before entering the operating room, Segovia asked for his guitar, closed his eyes, and played before a rapt audience of doctors and nurses. "Now I know I can go on playing even if I remain blind for the rest of my life," he said...