MAN'S SIGHT RESTORED
CQRNEAL GRAFTING OPERATION Reeeived Mohday, 8.15 p.m. SYDNEY, Sept. 16. Alipost blind, Mr. W. Spooner, of Melbourne, aged 58, left Sydney last May for New york in a desperate bid to, regain bis eyesight by undergoing a porneal gralting operation. He returned today with sight of one . eye fully restored". He claims to be the oldest persod ta whom a cornea has been successfiilly grafted and the only Australian whose sight has been restored by such an operation. The famous Spanish Doctor, Ramon uastoviejo, grait^a into ivir. spooner's right eye,; the cornea of a man L who fta^t died '^ix nours preyious'iy, The' operatipn Book an ^oiir? ind the stitebes we^V yi^oved. f fiighY I-'days : later. Mr. Spboner . wilil /reiurzj -to America next year for an operation to the left eye.
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Chronicle (Levin), 17 September 1946, Page 5
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