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Jewish Doctor Develops Tiny Contact Lens Fitting Pupils Only

February 12, 1952
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The development of a tiny plastic lens that can be fitted directly on the eyeball to replace eyeglasses as well as the old-style contact lenses was described here by Dr. William Feinbloom at a special meeting yesterday of the Brooklyn Optometrical Society.

Dr. Feinbloom, who has been working with contact lenses in research and practice for 27 years, said that the pupil lense which he developed, and which weighs less than a drop of water, should improve the vision of many near-sighted, farsighted and astigmatic persons. He reported that in tests on 215 patients, the lenses corrected faulty vision of 93 percent of the subjects.

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