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Contact Lens Practice E-Book
Nathan Efron
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In this thoroughly revised and updated third edition of Contact Lens Practice, award-winning author, researcher and lecturer, Professor Nathan Efron, provides a comprehensive, evidence-based overview of the scientific foundation and clinical applications of contact lens fitting. The text has been refreshed by the inclusion of ten new authors â a mixture of scientists and clinicians, all of whom are at the cutting edge of their specialty. The chapters are highly illustrated in full colour and subject matter is presented in a clear and logical format to allow the reader to quickly hone in the desired information.
- Ideal for an optometrist, ophthalmologist, orthoptist, optician, student, or work in the industry, this book will serve as an essential companion and guide to current thinking and practice in the contact lens field.
- Highlights of this edition include a new chapter on myopia control contact lenses, as well are completely rewritten chapters, by new authors, on keratoconus, orthokeratology, soft and rigid lens measurement and history taking.
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Part 1
Introduction
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History
Nathan Efron
Introduction
We cannot continue these brilliant successes in the future, unless we continue to learn from the past.
Calvin Coolidge, inaugural US presidential address, 1923
Coolidge was referring to the successes of a nation, but his sentiment could apply to any field of endeavour, including contact lens practice. As we continue to ride on the crest of a huge wave of exciting developments in the 21st century, we would not wish to lose sight of the past. Hence the inclusion in this book of this brief historical overview.
Outlined below in chronological order (allowing for some historical overlaps) is the development of contact lenses, from the earliest theories to present-day technology. Each heading, which represents a major achievement, is annotated with a year that is considered to be especially significant to that development. These dates are based on various sources of information, such as dates of patents, published papers and anecdotal reports. It is recognized, therefore, that some of the dates cited are open to debate, but they are nevertheless presented to provide a reasonable chronological perspective.
Early Theories (1508â1887)
Although contact lenses were not fitted until the late 19th century, a number of scholars had earlier given thought to the possibility of applying an optical device directly to the eyeball to correct vision. Virtually all of these suggestions were impractical.
Many contact lens historians point to Leonardo da Vinciâs Codex of the Eye, Manual D, written in 1508, as having introduced the optical principle underlying the contact lens. Indeed, da Vinci described a method of directly altering corneal power â by immersing the eye in a bowl of water (Fig. 1.1). Of course, a contact lens corrects vision by altering corneal power. However, da Vinci was primarily interested in learning the mechanisms of accommodation of the eye (Heitz and Enoch, 1987) and did not refer to a mechanism or device for correcting vision.
In 1636, René Descartes described a glass fluid-filled tube that was to be placed in direct contact with the cornea (Fig. 1.2). The end of the tube was made of clear glass, the shape of which would determine the optical correction. Of course, such a device is impractical as blinking is not possible; nevertheless, the principle of directly neutralizing corneal power used by Descartes is consistent with the principles underlying modern contact lens design (Enoch, 1956).
As part of a series of experiments concerning the mechanisms of accommodation, Thomas Young, in 1801, constructed a device that was essentially a fluid-filled eyecup that fitted snugly into the orbital rim (Young, 1801) (Figs. 1.3 and 1.4). A microscope eyepiece was fitted into the base of the eyecup, thus forming a similar system to that used by Descartes. Youngâs invention was somewhat more practical in that it could be held in place with a headband and blinking was possible; however, he did not intend this device to be used for the correction of refractive errors.
In a footnote in his treatise on light in the 1845 edition of the Encyclopedia Metropolitana, Sir John Herschel suggested two possible methods of correcting âvery bad cases of irregular corneaâ: (1) âapplying to the cornea a spherical capsule of glass filled with animal jellyâ (Fig. 1.5), or (2) âtaking a mould of the cornea and impressing it on some transparent mediumâ (Herschel, 1845). Although it seems that Herschel did not attempt to conduct such trials, his latter suggestion was ultimately adopted some 40 years later by a number of inventors, working independently and unbeknown to each other, who were all apparently unaware of the writings of Herschel.
Glass Scleral Lenses (1888)
There was a great deal of activity in contact lens research in the late 1880s, which has led to debate as to who should be given credit for being the first to fit a contact lens. Adolf Gaston Eugene Fick (Fig. 1.6), a German ophthalmologist working in Zurich, appears to have been the first to describe the process of fabricating and fitting contact lenses in 1888; specifically, he described the fitting of afocal scleral contact shells first on rabbits, then on himself and finally on a small group of volunteer patients (Efron and Pearson, 1988). In their textbook dated 1910, MĂŒller and MĂŒller, who were manufacturers of ocular prostheses, described the fitting in 1887 of a partially transparent protective glass shell to a patient referred to them by Dr Edwin Theodor SĂ€misch (MĂŒller and MĂŒller, 1910). Pearson (2009) asserts that the fitting was done by Albert C MĂŒller-Uri. Fickâs work was published in the journal Archiv fĂŒr Augenheilkunde in March 1888, and must be accorded historical precedence over later anecdotal textbook accounts.
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