REPAIRING THE EYE.
Some cnrious facts have come light about the regeneration of the eye during experiments made by M. Philipeaux, facts of a very pleasing kind if we only infer that what applies to inferior animals is applicable else to man. N. Philipeaux has been, it seems, anxious to discover whether on completely emptying the eyes of young rabbits and guinea pigs the vitreous humour would be reorganised and whether even the crystalline would be reproduced. With this view, he has been conducting his operations, always, of course, taking care not to touch the crystalline capsule, for experience has shown that in order that an organ shall regenerate, a portion of it must be left in its place. It aeems that a month after the mutiliation was effected, the experimentalist was able to state that the eyes, which had been emptied were filled afresh, and that the crystalline was reconstituted. He opperated on twenty-four animals, and in each case the mutilated eye revived. This would seem to show that the optic organ has the same capabilities as the bones ;the organic process repairs an evil and reconstructs, more or less completely, that portion which has been struck off from the whole.
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Kumara Times, Issue 1016, 2 January 1880, Page 4
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