Dr. Isaac Chessar Michaelson, head of the department of Opthamology at Hadassah Hospital from 1954 to 1975, died here last week at the age of 79 Michaelson, whose textbooks on the eye have been used by medical students throughout the world, began his career in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he was born in 1903. After serving in the British Army in the Middle East during World War II, he became head of the Government Hospital in Haifa in 1948. In 1954 he went to Hadassah Hospital. Since his retirement he has devoted himself to international programs for the prevention of blindness.
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