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Battle of Britain lives on in my eyes
Perspex canopy clues to future of cataract surgery
11 April 2009

RAF Museum photo of Spitfire

The Times today tells the story of how eye injuries suffered by Battle of Britain pilots, when fragments of their Perspex canopies embedded themselves in their eyes proved surprisingly inert, gave Sir Harold Ridley the idea of implanting plastic lenses in replacement of cataract-clouded lenses.  As a recent beneficiary of this technology, I can only say another thank you to all those involved.

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