Through Old Eyes

New Eyes for Old

"To look into happiness through another man's eycs."-Shakespeare. IN the last decade corneal grafting has come very much into its own and is now a recognised ophthalmic surgical procedure, practised in every ophthalmic centre throughout the world. Requirements for grafting are very precise and in each region one centre specialises more and more in this operation, and round that centre has been ...

Through the artist's eyes.

TWENTY-FIVE years ago last month Mr Ernest Morrison FRCS kindly asked me to look after a man whose character and courage I came greatly to admire and whose close friendship I was privileged to enjoy during the remaining five years of his life. Zoltan Lewinter-Frankl was born in Hungary in 1894 and the family later moved to Vienna. Such was his love of paintings that by the age of 16 he had alre...

Eye ancestry: Old genes for new eyes

The vast differences between vertebrate and arthropod eyes suggest that the recently discovered homologous master control genes for eye development had another function before eyes evolved in the early Cambrian.

Looking Through the Patients’ Eyes

Objective: Patient satisfaction is a personal evaluation of health-care services that is often used as an indicator of quality of care. The aim of this study was to identify aspects of hospital care that affect patient satisfaction by examining the structural and convergent validity of an in-house questionnaire. Methods: The sample consisted of 3320 patients discharged from an Italian public ho...

Judge Posner through dissenting eyes.