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Putting in Early Contacts Was a Painful Struggle

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12 years ago

September 29, 2014

INVISION Staff

Sometimes, cocaine and a muscle-hook were involved.

A blogger for Scientific America writes –- eventually — about gender-differences in eyecare but the lengthy intro to her piece shares some fascinating nuggets from the distant history of the contact lens. August Müller was a 25-year-old medical student when he fashioned his first lenses in 1889, she writes, dabbing his eyes with a bit of cocaine to make insertion more comfortable. German ophthalmologist Adolph Eugene Fick got the title, “father of the contact lens” with his invention a year earlier. Fick’s lenses were made of heavy brown glass from the bottom of test tubes, and required a muscle-hook to insert.

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