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W C Frayer

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The unexpected guest: problem of iris reposition.

A 31-year-old male presented with a corneal laceration and iris prolapse in the left eye. The surgical repair was complicated by epithelial ingrowth on the lens capsule. The appropriate management of both the initial trauma and subsequent complication is discussed.

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Origins and evolution of the Lancaster Course in ophthalmology.

The Lancaster Course was created in 1945 to meet a need for training in the basic sciences of ophthalmology. At that time the course was designed particularly for young physicians who were discharged from the Armed Services at the end of World War II. For nearly five decades, the course has been given each summer at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, with the participation of some of the most illustrious figures in ophthalmology. It has undergone numerous changes in faculty and student body, having become less directed toward the experienced physician and more toward the beginning resident. What has not changed in the informal environment combined with intensive study, which allows students to learn basic sciences and to interact with outstanding leaders in ophthalmology.

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Doctor Rush's eye water and the opening of the American west.

It has now been almost 200 years since Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out from St. Louis on their successful western exploration in search of a practical overland and water route to the Pacific Ocean. Prior to their departure, Lewis traveled to Philadelphia to seek advice from the famous Dr. Benjamin Rush and others. Rush provided him with an elementary medical education, a liberal supply of his famous purgative pills, a chest of medical instruments, and a recipe for a lead acetate eye wash, together with the chemicals needed for its manufacture. In their journals, Lewis and Clark make frequent allusions to various eye afflictions suffered by their own troops and by the Native Americans encountered on their journey. Although herbal remedies were in common use, Rush's eye water proved very popular among the Native Americans for relief of their pain. It was so popular, in fact, that the explorers were able to make good use of it as diplomatic currency.

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