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...checkup by Dr. Cruthirds after six months showed that Linda's corneal scars were beginning to clear. A few weeks ago, he found that vision in her left eye had improved from 5/200 to 20/100-good enough for her to learn to read. Linda is forgetting about Braille...
...Cruthirds hopes that Linda's regained sight may encourage ophthalmologists to try calsulfhydryl in similar cases. Many have hesitated to do so, because of the medical tradition that the process of scarring is irreversible. Dr. Cruthirds' answer: corneal tissue is different from other body tissues, and corneal scars must be different from other scars...
...Selfless. Dr. Albert Snay took the stand for the defense. He had examined Abbie Borroto just before his friend Dr. Sander came into the room. He had found no pulse, no corneal reflex when he touched the eye, the skin was cold, he had heard no heartbeat. He met Dr. Sander in the doorway, he said, and told him that the patient was gone...
...transplanting corneas from one eye to another has been known for more than 100 years, but surgeons are still trying to improve it. For two days in Manhattan last week, eye specialists from the U.S. and eight foreign countries discussed the delicate operation at the first International Symposium on Corneal Surgery ever held, sponsored by the Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration...
...ophthalmologists examined patients who had regained their sight through the Eye-Bank, heard reports on new experimental work, discussed techniques, looked at movies of corneal grafting made in the U.S., Spain and France. An unusual suggestion for the future of corneal grafting was made by Dr. Mauno Vannas, on leave from Finland's University of Helsinki. If enough eyes are available, he said, it might be possible to correct such ordinary defects in vision as near-and farsightedness by grafting new corneas. The operation might, for instance, make use of contact lenses unnecessary. But eyes are still scarce. Only...