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...have been given in 30,000 transfusions since the method was first tried there in 1930. U.S. doctors have shied away from it because of prejudice against contact with anything taken from a corpse. The Pontiac pathologists hoped that this prejudice was weakening with wider acceptance of corneal grafting and the transplanting of bone and arteries from accident victims...
...bath of special wetting fluid, and could be worn only four to five hours at a stretch. Then came the methyl-methacrylate plastics (of the Plexiglas family), the discovery that fluid was unnecessary if lenses had a hole to permit tears to pass beneath, and development of the tiny corneal lens, which covers only the eye's iris. The boom...
Some ophthalmologists still insist that the small corneal lenses should not be worn in active sports because of the risk of dislodgement. But several members of the Chicago Bears (hardly a sedentary group) wear them, notably Dr. William McColl, 29, All-America (Stanford University '52), with the Bears since 1952 and now in his second year as a resident in surgery at the University of Illinois. In his first season with the Bears, McColl's contacts fell out a few times, but he has no trouble now that they have been refitted. And Dr. McColl wears them into...
...right, he diagnoses pronounced pemphigus (a skin disease) localized around the eyes, which has caused opaque corneas; some form of blindness in which bright light is painful (the figure's hat is pulled down over his eyes); atrophy of the eyeballs, probably caused by glaucoma or panophthalmia; corneal leukoma (corneas thickened from an ulcer, wound or inflammation); and enucleation (surgical removal of eyes...
Died. Dr. Vladimir Petrovich Filatov, 81, leading Soviet eye surgeon and medical researcher, who developed (by 1936) one of the earliest successful techniques for corneal transplants; in Odessa...