Ophthalmology

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , the creator of Sherlock Holmes was an Ophthalmologist. Albert Einstein's eyes were removed by his ophthalmologist Dr. Henry Abrams during the autopsy in 1955 and stored . The eyes wereput up for auction in 1994. The term "Uvea"was first used by Galen, a Roman physician to include both the choroid and the iris because they resemble a grape from which the stalk had been torn out leaving a hole in front, the hole being the pupil of the eye. Lewis Carroll had episodes of micropsia during his migraine attacks which made him to conceive the idea of Alice seeing things smaller than they were.

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The core strategy of the Boston Retinal Implant Project (BRIP) is to create novel engineering solutions to treat blinding diseases that elude other forms of treatment. Their specific goal is to develop an implantable microelectronic prosthesis to restore vision to patients with certain forms of retinal blindness. For more details click the link http://www.bostonretinalimplant.org/

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After conducting 150 eye operations free of cost within 14-and-a-half-hours in 2006, Dr S P Singh, Director of the Regional Institute of Ophthalmology, is eyeing the Guinness Book of World Records. He now plans to conduct 200 free operations in 15 hours in November to register his name in the record book. So far, all his bulk operations have been free of cost. In March 5, 2001, Singh had set a record in the Limca Book of Records by performing 81 operations — Intra Ocular Lense (IOL) — in 11 hours at one go. Source: Indian Express