February 06, 2019 Wednesday
Bedtime Story
A Chimpanzee's Apology
I am extremely sorry more for myself than
for you my cousin apes that I was unable to publish the bedtime story for the
last night.
Of course there is always the enticing
route of cheating, that is, to publish as a matter of record on a back date on
my blog page but that would drastically bring down the nobility rating of this
insignificant average ape.
It is thanks to my brilliant brother ape
(yes, among the cousins there is a degree of genetic separations) that not only
am I able to write down a bedtime story tonight but also managed to resuscitate
from the dead all the data of my patients and update them with those who
followed suit after the Windows 10 crash.
I must once again clarify what I mean by
cousin even though I may have mentioned it earlier in one of my bedtime stories.
Any two people who share a common ancestor
are cousins and so my brother is my closest cousin in a manner of speaking.
But my brother does not satisfy the other two
prerequisites that are required of being a cousin.
Firstly to qualify to be cousins two people
must not share even a single parent and secondly they should not be a sibling
of a common ancestor.
The second condition rules out relatives
such as uncles or aunts and nephews or nieces from being labeled as cousins.
Thus a brother cannot technically be called
a cousin.
So that was a little bit of explanation of
the eventful evening of yester night that got me pretty rattled and shaky and I
learnt that one needs to save data more diligently, preferably everyday and ideally
on Google Drive rather than some kind of physical device.
So let resume the story of couching – the
highly prized surgical technique of ayurveda that till today finds its mention
in some of the textbooks of Ophthalmology.
For performing couching the ideal site on
the eye ball is the Pars plana which is the Latin for “flat portion”.
Para plana is anatomically a part of the
ciliary body (that produces aqueous humor) which in turn is part of the middle
vascular layer of the eye ball called uvea.
Par plana is an area that lies just beyond
the transparent cornea at about 3 to 3.5 mm into the sclera.
It is obvious that these ancient surgeons
were unaware of the anatomy of the eye and this “safe site” must have been
arrived at after a series of trial and error.
It is an ideal site for surgeons to enter
the posterior vitreous cavity since it serves no function after the post-fetal
period, is avascular and does not bear upon it the ten distinct layers of
retina.
In couching this route was used to shove
the lens behind.
In this process not only is the lens
dislocated from its secure place but also its secluded place exposing its
antigens to the body’s immune system since the poking itself disturbs the
natural barriers that barricades away blood and its plethora of immune cells
and chemical mediators.
Stay tuned to the voice of an
average story storytelling chimpanzee or login at http://panarrans.blogspot.com
Good night Mon Ami and my fellow cousin ape.
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Another great educator and a teacher that I am aware of is
Professor Subhashish Chattopadhyay in Bangalore, India.
While I narrate stories, Professor Subhashish an electronic
engineer and a former professor at BARC, does and teaches real mathematics and
physics.
He started the participation of Indian students at the
International Physics Olympiad.
Do visit him here:
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