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dated December 9, 1952: New lenses for the blind

The development of a new type of lens, announced on the 7th in Maine, USA, held out the prospect of many people usually classified as blind being enabled to return to normal life and work. The breakthrough was announced in an address delivered to the Maine State Optometric Association by Dr. William Foenbloom, Associate Professor of Optometry in Columbia University. Dr. Foenbloom had been an active leader for over twenty years in the development of new devices to help patients suffering from sub-normal vision. He had achieved major improvements with artificially-made contact lenses. The pioneering eye doctor said that the new lens he had perfected had also been found to be successful with old people whose eye-sight had deteriorated with age. The new lenses could be used in frames like those of normal spectacles, but they had to be fitted in a conjunction of two or three pieces whose total thickness, however, came to less than half an inch.

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