David Baker celebrates Sir Harold Ridley, inventor of the intraocular lens and now honoured with a commemorative postage stamp
On September 16 Royal Mail issued a new set of stamps entitled 'Medical Breakthroughs'. It celebrates major turning points in 20th-century British medicine. One of the six stamps (67p) commemorates Sir Harold Ridley's invention of the intraocular lens (IOL) and the surgery to implant it, thus effecting the first-ever total cure for cataract.
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