Show v 's Logan Utah Sunday January t1 Medicines sometimes affect the eyes in unusual ways — maybe even making everything seen much smaller than it actually is or tinging an entire scene orange or green Or drugs taken for medical purposes may even cause hallucinations double vision enlarged pupils Sometimes too much of a vitamin also can play tricks on the eyes For example too much vitamin A can make eyelids turn yellowish and disturb color vision or even lead to crossed eyes The strange effects most often have been noted in children and infants overdosed with the vitamin The US Pood and Drug Administration for the last two years has been keeping track of odd effects of drugs oo the eyes and in a report for consumers cites some of the more unusual cases They are from among 1961 incidences reported to d the National Registry of "Possible Ocular Side Effects'7 The Registry the first to gather data on drug effects on a single organ was established via FDA contract with the University of Arkansas Medical Center Letting consumers know about some of the side effects oo eyes can help those on particular drugs to be less anxiety-ridde- n if a strange visual happening Drug-Induce- O XVI II v V V N V V 3: "Man with Hat" by Utah State University artist Larry Eisner was sv s $ V V s fc V K K s V V : silkscreen Over printing (UPUr Uxlita&iUver founUin professional need only ns three thtacs: a blackboard a piece of chalk and boundless imagination The trappings of mathematicians are sparse their needs modest They work out their calculations and theorems in small confines but their work roams the infafo space of the mind Their work often achieves true defence and beauty but is appreciated by a very small group: fellow mathematicians The layman sees only an elaborate chicken scratch Thor can be difficult as well as diffident these lonely Samuel Eilenberg of Columbia once compared his mathematical inventions with that of a tailor: "Sometimes I make them with five sleeves other times with seven sleeves When it pleases me I make a coat with two sleeves And if it fits someone Fm happy enough to have him wear ft” Professor Daniel Stroock is not so difficult He occupies a small office in a faceless Colorado campusin Boulder Office Ml is a hollow cube of white plaster On the walls are a chalk scrawled blackboard and posters of mathe-maticia- ns Rodin’s Thinker the Denver Nuggets basketball team and Nuggets' guard David Thompson Papers and books flow over the desk His sneakers and gym shorts are atop a table and apair of slippers rest at the base of a filing cabinet A bicycle tilts against a bookshelf -- tt is the office of a journeyman mathematician who makes his living partly at least on an abstract plane ‘Tve always considered myself a second-rat- e Consumer:" -C- odeine may cause nearsightedness errous sulfate for iron deficiency may cause a yellowbrown discoloration of the eyes —The heart drug digoxin may cause double vision enlarged pupils problems with color vision and visual hallucinations another drug of the same type sometimes touches off what is known as the glare phenomenon Objects appear to be covered with brown orange or white snow -Ampicillin an antibiotic can cause inflammation and irritate the eyes -- Chloramphenicol used to treat bacterial infections can diminish vision or mix up color vision It inalso has caused paralysis of accommodation terfering with the eye's ability to adjust itself for distance viewing -A- nother drug nalixdic acid has caused objects to appear brightly colored Temporary loss of vision a so has been reported lasting from naif an hour to as long as 72 hours --The antihistamine benadryl has been linked to -F- - Acetyl-digitoxi- n al - mathe matician” said Stoock firmly setting his feet in obscurity "Oh my work is reasonably he said "Fm not saying I'm a mathematician oo the order of a GH Hardy or a Herman Wyle or some of the great ones who are living today There are some mathematicians who tre Just so much better than everybody else It's like an OJ Simpson compared with an ordinary running back'’ The professor needed a shave and his unruly brown hair needed trimming or combing or something His tweed jacket was dusty with duilk and the cord pants were baggy in the knees He sat with an unlighted briar ipe in his left hand Stroock had raped tobacco into the bowl and forgotten to take bis thumb out A well-know- n" pen - - - Acetaminophen the painkiller can on occasion cause conjunctivitis enlarged pupils and even may add a yellow tinge to what the user sees If used in longterm treatment acetaminophen may cause blood vessels of the retina to change to a greenish color -- One report to the Registry linked the liquid protein diet with acute myopia that is nearsightedness TV Registry set up with cooperation from the Ophthalmic Section of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology The FDA says its report has two purposes: L To make physicians aware that some drugs may affect the eyes 2 To collect information about previously unsuspected rare severe or unusual eye problems non-aspir- in in Budget Sportswear all other stores 200 photographs appear in the book according to the author who visited some 100 artists in his travels scholar! in the nithri! sciences who require hue laboratories to conduct first-rat- e 27 hallucinations double vision enlarged pupils Other side effects from benadryl may include impaired accommodation and rapid movement of the eyeballs a condition known as usually from side to side nystagmus --The "minor tranquilizers" including Vaiium Mil town librium oo occasion may cause double vision So ean oral contraceptives Users of "The Pill” also may find ingredients in the birth control medicine may make their eyes extremely sensitive to contact lenses The trouble may rule out such lenses In the auditorium atVaHey Fair and Ogden MONDAY 10 AM DOOR CRASHER Math adds up to beauty for pros mathe-maticia- discontinued Here are some examples cited in the latest "FDA tallowing techniques: decal luster silkscreen salt glazing photosensitizing low temperature glazing Raku melted glass and ceramic photographed by John W Conrad for a book "Confemproary Ceramics Techniques" which will be out shortly If presents a photographic overview of cerarhic craftspeople across the nation and deals with the research s -- Photographed for book BOULDER Cota k - strikes when they are taking a particular medicine The odd ocular happenings tend for the most part to be rare And they are transitory That is they dear up as a rule when the offending medication is PE - v TheHernaj ournai- - BUDGET WOMEN'S SPORTSWEAR "iff- V W9 Unusual drug effects on eyes By Patricia McCormack UPl health editor sV 21 wu Sony no phone or mat Rag to $10 misses' tops choose from many styles 299 m in his right ’hand'’ Stroock speaks in a staccato the tall of pauses the phrases stressed according to the - it With truth’’ FAMOUS BRAND COORDINATES M rcarry: any other subject — in which you can assert the notion of Such Arrogance mm - He continued At the time he was speaking of mathematics and beauty “Now the artist can yell and yell and yell and yell it's beautiful it's beaufital ft's beautiful it's beautiful —but be can't prove iL "The mathematician may not be able to say that what he said was beautiful but he can prove it's true "And presumably all truth contains a certain amount of beauty Or so the poets told ns "Keats was the one who said: 'Beauty is truth truth beauty that is all Ye bow oo earth and all ye need to perf to $28 tops blouses jackets pants and skirts in sizes 8 Maks your selection from a large group If 8-1- know”’ Pure mathematicians tell us they judge their work largely by aesthetic standards though not quite to the tune 16&J GH Hardy the English mathematician once wrote: "The mathematician's patterns like the painter's or the poet's must be beautital the ideas like the colors or the words must fit together in a there is no pep harmonious way manent place m the world for ugly mathematics'' A bit romantic says Stroock but not entirely fanciful He does his own mathematics on the aesthetic principle though the task itself may nave been derived from a problem in the MISSES' PANTS fm of Keats 999 fc Reg Reg $14 group - 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