Show peng Nearsighted Is Laughing Matter com-j as is at least a estimate comes from Mary C. Fletcher of one of the small band of studying has concentrated school children hoping a break-through in at an early age could more serious adult estimates that myopias' based on one eye 1 and one pre-i of glasses yearly 41 highly conservative basis thousands of cases much more extensive at least billion are roughly and engaged in the of myopia and other lEre The specialists in eye pagination and the who SU examine eyes and necessary all often regard each other iKe warring jungle cats anyone who deals with one Coup the enmity of Ee was what happened iben Sylvia N. Rach-Sa founded the Myopia Research Be was determined to run with no fund-raisers tak- major clona u. determined to papers ob-the both Foundation t found herself And of unanticipated with some mem-h groups trying ways to e most militant he get wise and to Foundation's him for Id him I wouldn't million ie called back had on an extension ig notes about Some hustling put out a ie of the Myopia Rach-top to that by call a press ind expose the both persuasions eem to delight in their you are e are they say ast world specialists con-eye e doctor greeted t trying to cure Well as far as I'm e Way cure them is to shoot snapped these while all to are not representative of either specialty as a Thousands of doctors are truly about Patients f f My new help ta ment NEARLY have their card index file to receive the research papers it And several ly motivated medical leaders ShEi stands at enabled the Foundation to Dr- William L executive secretary and treasurer of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology gave the Foundation prime space for its exhibit at the Academy's 1965 convention in THE late Thomas E. a leading ophthalmologist and teacher at the Georgetown University School of felt so strongly though he was suffering from the pains of terminal he insisted cn testifying before Congressional committee in support of the Foundation's In an impassioned he asked a series of Could the hereditary element in be What is the effect of early and wide Could degenerative not correctable by be After each he pounded home this do not THIS past another widely respected A. L. professor of ophthalmology at New York University Medical told the New York City Federation of Women's Clubs that the Foundation was and that the research papers it has provided had meant much to him and his The World Health Organization has also praised the Foundation's in received a special award from the Indian Journal of Ocular Pathology in DESPITE such the Foundation has fought an uphill It has been supported by small donations and by membership Research papers presented at its first conference in 1964 were printed free of charge by a but there distribution For research papers piled up in the foundation's files but there was no money for their printing and own startlingly successful eye operation in 1969 had a galvanic after a few larger contributions made possible the print-ng of another series of BUT the Foundation still nas some twenty reports on Russian research and thirty-two others from specialists throughout the world waiting for some financial angle to make their distribution And there is still in the United States no myopia It is the whole field is a depend for their information on what they happen to read by There are so many fields to be THERE is the question of since some studies indicate a high protein diet may Part of the problem seems to involve the circular vascular there is still no solid there are very few controlled experiments without you cannot be certain what you are The whole field remains a no man's IN ANOTHER effort to eliminate this no man's and spokesmen for the Foundation will soon go back before the Subcommittees on Education and Welfare of the House of Representatives and Senate Appropriations Committees to renew their plea for the establishment of a National Myopia Center under the U. S. Public Health As sees a broad spectrum of medical specialties should be brought into the for myopia is not a simple problem and a study of its causes and treatment should not just the eye but the the family the the the and SHE envisions a center that would gather information about myopia on standard reporting with the names of patients kept that would maintain contact with researchers throughout the world and and would make instantly available to American doctors the latest discoveries in the If she should succeed admittedly difficult the present policy of budget-crimping on domestic matters being what it hers would be a truly unique Foundation one that had worked hard to put itself out of business and turn over the program it started to a federal in that at lease one long stride would have been taken toward the elimination of ignorance in a field affecting and in time it might no longer |