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James Thurber and the Problems of Sympathetic Ophthalmia
James G. Ravin, MD
Arch Ophthalmol. 2002;120:628-632.
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I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood,
because I have a great urge to do it, because many interesting challenges are set up, and because I have the hope it may do some good.—James Thurber, 19611
The writer and cartoonist James Thurber (1894-1961) brought humor to
a generation or more of Americans. But joy and laughter were not always part
of his life, unfortunately. An arrow injury to his left eye at age 6 years
resulted in the removal of that eye. While he was still a child, his right
eye developed iritis with exudation over the lens surface, and he was diagnosed
as having sympathetic ophthalmia, the inflammation in the good eye that can
follow penetrating injury. For several decades, peering over and through hyperopic
glasses, his remaining eye functioned relatively well. Then, when Thurber
was in his . . . [Full Text of this Article]
From the Division of Ophthalmology, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo.
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