Word: cornea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Professor Alvaro has not yet been successful in isolating the specific eye principle, has used only small injections of diluted complete venom, or mixtures of various types of venom. Injection of venom under the conjunctiva (delicate membrane covering the eyeball) has relieved severe pain arising from inflammation of the cornea, stopped bleeding from ocular diseases...
Several weeks ago, when the infection following the burn had abated, Hoffman went to Hagerstown, and asked Dr. Paul Nelson Fleming if he would ever be able to see again. Dr. Fleming examined his eyes, discovered that the fragile, shell-like corneas were completely useless, that each lens and iris had grown together in a tangled mass. He told Hoffman that he could only experiment, but Hoffman was willing to try anything. At Washington County Hospital Dr. Fleming removed the scarred cornea from Hoffman's right eye, straightened out the lens and iris as best he could. No human...
Greatly astonished was towheaded, 47-year-old Dr. Fleming. "Frankly, I didn't think it would work," said he. "I have performed numerous eye operations, but this is the first in which I have ever used the cornea of a rabbit. The difference between the human cornea and the rabbit cornea is that the latter is larger and deeper. If this operation proves successful I will perform a second operation on Hoffman's right eye, using the rabbit cornea as a base, and over this graft a human cornea. Whether or not his sight will again be normal...
...some time previous to the letter from Mr. Harding, although we are allowed no Calif, papers, all the out of State papers carried stories about how Mr. Harding was going to or had come over to see us and ask for the cornea. In fact there was so much publicity before any of us heard directly about it, that many condemned men thought it was merely a publicity stunt and therefore distrustful of the whole thing. There were also newspaper stories to the effect the request was made to us through the prison chaplain, but the truth is the only...
...letter asked each of us to bequeath the cornea with a pious reference to Mr. Harding being a Minister. The letter indicated that it was Mr. Hardings belief that death was a matter of a few days in the future and that he wanted his cornea right away. Naturally you can appreciate this was impossible to work out in this...