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 , TEE WIT_ES$_ ! was just going t_ _dd that
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 _ost medications of which I take 20 do not also have
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 _ome side effectsF which _ don_t like to have it
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 going on in my own body, but == {pause}
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 _o ZERSE_ Okay, that's _ine then°
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 THE _T_SS: Okay
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 BY MR. ZEESE:
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 Isn't it true that glaucoma medications
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 For the period of the llfe of the patient?
 I3 _ The same way as systq_ic hypertension has
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 t5 _ Okay. l_owe Isn't it true that there are no
 16 glaucoma drugs that strenthen the optic nerve?
 _7 A Not that we are aware of, but Z don't know
 18 how you test for that.
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 Isn't it true that once optic nerve damage
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 21 A Everyone used to think that was true until
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 Dr. Stephen Drancee who is a very well recognized
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 glaucoma expert around the _orld, reported some
 2_ studies in 1984, '86 -= _ can't remember now_ but
 25 think i't was !98_ -- where he _howed that
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