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Volume 336:1393-1394 May 8, 1997 Number 19
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Solution to "A Medical Mystery"

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To the Editor: In 1960, when I was a second-year medical student, my intern at Bellevue Hospital charged me with this grave mission: "Look for the person with a glass eye and a big liver." I have spent the intervening 37 years engaged, among many other activities, in this pursuit. Imagine my sense of mission accomplished when I finally found the object of my quest in the March 20 issue of the Journal1 — the lady with a glass right eye inserted by the ophthalmologist, who had vainly prayed that this cosmetic gesture would magically stem the spread of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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