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Imagine a world shrouded in perpetual twilight, where the vibrant colors of life slowly fade into a hazy blur. For countless individuals throughout history, this was the reality of cataracts – a clouding of the eye’s lens that rendered the world indistinct and life’s simple pleasures inaccessible. Yet, even in antiquity, desperate times called for … Read more
Imagine a world shrouded in perpetual fog, where faces blur into indistinct shapes and colors fade to muted grays. For millions, this was the reality of a cataract, a clouding of the eye’s lens that stole the vibrancy of life. Until, that is, a man named Charles Kelman dared to revolutionize its treatment. Before the … Read more
In the dimly lit operating rooms of 18th-century France, a persistent darkness threatened to steal the vibrant tapestry of life for thousands. Blindness, often caused by cataracts – the clouding of the eye’s lens – was a sentence of isolation, condemning individuals to a world devoid of color and connection. Yet, amidst this despair, one … Read more