13 Dec
2001
13 Dec
'01
4:46 p.m.
Roger Merchberger said:
Hmmm... from my High School biology & health classes, I seem to recall that
myopia is nearsightedness, *hyperopia* was farsightedness, and I thought
that presbyopia was either someone who can see near & far but not in
between, or someone that could not see near or far, but what was in between
was in focus... but that was a long time ago... and the health field
changes faster than the computer field... (I was amazed seeing back 80-90
years ago that over 50% of the folks that died in my town were diagnosed
with "consumption"... I wonder what consumed them? Maybe squirrels??? ;-)
"consumption" is another name for tuberculosis.
- Dan Wright
(dtwright(a)uiuc.edu)
(http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
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