OPTICAL MARVEL

Hokitika Guardian, 18 December 1928, Page 8

OPTICAL MARVEL

SEEING WITH OTHER'S EYE

SAN FRANCISCO, November 11. The trn iisplanauuti of the cornea of an eye from one patient to another w I lose sight was failing has resulted in at least temporary success, it was announced by Dr. lago Galdston, executive secretary of the Medical Information Bureau of the New York Academy of .Medicine and the New Yon< County Medical Association. When the bandages were removed from the eye of Port Ferguson, who has one glass eye and was losing the sight of the other, he could discern objects at a distance of ten feet. Tim cornea of the eye of Charles K. Grecnhlatt, cotton goods .salesman of Brooklyn, New York, who had his eye removed oil October L’olli. because ho was suffering front a tumor, was grafted on to the while membrane which forms the outer covering of Kergusuii’s eye. The cornea was perfectly healthy. The operation was to determine whether it would take root and establish nutrition channels.

|)r. (ialdsl.on said that although Ferguson’s condition was satisfactory, the progress was not to ho considered final, lie sLated that it would take another two or three weeks beh.ro it could he definitely ascertained that the cornon would continue to adhere to the eyeball.

The operation was performed by Dr. lien Witt Key til the New York Kye and Ear Inlirinnry. It takes a larger area of tissues than any previous operation of its kind, said Dr. Gitldslon.