Word: cornea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russia, where physicians developed the art of preserving the blood of accident victims in order to build up a reserve or "blood bank" for transfusions,*eye specialists who pioneered in the art of transplanting new corneas to the eyes of the blind have recently established "cornea banks," by removing the corneas of dead people for use in transplanting operations...
...ophthalmologists enucleated the old man's left eye, stripped it of part of its transparent cornea which they immediately substituted for the young man's opaque cornea. So commonplace has this eye operation become (corneal grafts may be taken from the eyes of stillborn babies or persons who have just died) that Charity Hospital surgeons assured Frank Chabina that within two weeks he would probably see as well as ever. Commented the grateful old donor: ''It looks a lot different to an old man like me than to a young fellow with all his life ahead...
...original but still new enough to be of interest to most San Franciscans, the wholesale poultry store of Corriea Bros, was flamboyantly advertising ELECTROCUTED POULTRY. In their execution chamber a short endless belt conveyor moves alongside a longer conveyor which carries the fowl, fastened by the feet. In the Cornea store an attendant fastens the bird's head into a clamp from the short, inside belt. About a foot farther on, a lever is pressed down, completing an electrical circuit. Some 1,000 to 1,500 volts, depending on the size of the fowl, stepped up by transformers from...
...Naturally enough the idea suggested itself of using cornea from dead bodies. . . . Eyes removed from corpses immediately after death were found to be fit for transplantation. . . . The condition after the operation was pretty much the same as that in the case of cornea taken from live eyes...
...donor's age is apparently irrelevant. An old person's cornea may be successfully transplanted to a young one. The patient's age however might at times make some difference. Thus it is difficult to perform the transplantation in children up to the age of eight or nine years, for it is difficult to take care of them. Blood groups apparently are not of essential significance for the success of the operation...