New England College of Optometry - Scope Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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gye - fbfaapfi by jobu Wfezzfzell Ya know, Axial Myopia is an awful queer condition. Some poor guy has a perfectly terri- lic refracting system, his ciliaries are working line, the aqueous and vitreous are as calm and unperturbed as a citizen with a 95 average, his lens is pure crystalline through and through, and yet his optical system is as phony as a fifteen-dollar bill. By all rights fGeneva Convention and UG. I. Billuj this bird should see better than a bald eagle corrected for distance-but what hap- pens? He can't see a diesel-engined trailer truck at 20 centimeters because his retina is lying against the venus sinuses of his occipital bone. In fact, this particular optical system is so far out of whack that it closely resembles the pigskin which the Harvards and Yales tight over more than somewhat come Novem- ber. Of course this particular jawn Q. Public is completely oblivious of this condition, and consequently goes on his merry way, running into buildings, and putting pickles in his Dry Martinis, when in reality he is about 2 diopters away from a Seeing Eye dog. Any Physiological Optics student who is not paying two bucks for a re-examination can recognize instantly the magnitude and grave possibilities of such a siuation, since a nerve impulse would need a Cities Service road map to find its way to the occipital lobes via such a lengthy visual pathway. All of you, brethren, will do well to give this case your undivided attention, for, were the nerve impulse to become confused and take a left turn instead of a right! A puzzled and desperate refractionist it would be, who, through bloodshot eyes, Haunting a Visual Acuity his left ear! Carbonic Tuxedo Astigmatic fwith the rulej Mastoiditis is present, gentlemen. The lad with the Ostrich-egg eyes has no far point at all, light emerging from his Pundus is of a blue- viewed a patient of 20fl5 through Page Ten M.S. O. Makes Faculty Changes, Additions Several changes in the faculty have occurred this trimester. In the pre-professional courses, Mr. Richard Gross, M.S., of Somerville, has taken over the freshman chemistry classes. Mr. Roger Arnold, M.S. in Ed., joins us as instruc- tor in mathematics. In the professional part of the curriculum we are fortunate in having added Mr. john H. Bridgwood to the opthalmic optics department as laboratory instructor. He was for nine years on the staff of the American Optical Com- pany's research laboratories, and when Dr. E. D. Tillyer, director of the laboratories, de- veloped the Tillyer corrected-curve lens, he aided in the installation of the necessary sur- facing equipment. We are sorry to lose a scholarly and genial friend, Lewis B. Combes, Ph.D., who is leaving our faculty, at least for this year, to assist in an important research project at Tufts, where hc holds professorial rank in the physics de- partment. The classes in physiological optics will not, however, be in poor hands, as Dr. Comb's successor is Harold Cline, O.D. Dr. Cline was one of our most brilliant students in his under-graduate days and taught here in the physiological optics laboratory before the war. red-lavender hue, and he has a disproportion- ate secondary deviation imbalance of his ocular muscles. Definitely a clear case of Paralytic Strabismus. Naturally, Helmholtz, Gray, Zoethout and the rest hid behind their degrees in hushed silence, but since the only sheepskin I own is on my pajamas, I proceeded with an open mind fwide openj and uncovered the material. For all the gory details therefore, I submit for your consideration the only reference as yet uncovered: Pathology of the Neanderthal Vertebraeu or Axial Ametropia-Wluy the Red Sox Aren't Hitting by joe Cronin.

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ARTHUR COWAN BENJAMIN HAMILTOIQI MORTDN SHAW, Pres. J. EDWARD WHELAN DAVID 1 YORRA

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