Word: corneas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consciousness of wrongs serves for moral conscience, and all social problems are expected to yield to a sufficiently brutal amount of revelation and analysis. There is a "special" for everything: possible life on the asteroids, the extinction of the sun, test-tube giraffes, housing, Eskimoes, hari-kari, cabbages, cornea transplants, insurance, ghettoes, suburbs, and Agnew. TV enervates us by its never-ending, relentless "exposure" of evils. Its documentaries and brooding newscasts are just as much entertainment as Jackie Gleason. Television regards social outrage-even in the euphemistic form of protest, irony, or bitterness-as intolerable betrayal of the public trust...
...other disputed case, John Madden, 55, the world's first recipient of an eye transplant involving substantially more than the cornea, left Houston's Methodist Hospital and went home. Dr. Conard Moore had grafted the front part of a donor eye to the remainder of Madden's right eye. Although Madden cannot even distinguish light from dark through the transplant, still he credited Moore with "a miracle...
...recipient, John Madden, 54, owner of a photography studio, had been legally blind from the scarring of the corneas of both eyes. At Methodist Hospital, Dr. Conard D. Moore grafted ; cornea onto Madden's right eye, but after nine days, the graft failed because of severe bleeding. A hazel-eyed Houston man had died of a brain tumor, and Moore decided to make the transplant to the brown-eyed Madden...
Most of Madden's own right eye was left in place, with its muscles, blood vessels and the all-important optic nerve, intact. What was transplanted was the cornea, with the iris and lens-roughly, the front third of the eyeball. Since the donor eye had been refrigerated and deprived of its blood supply before transplantation, there was little or no chance that it would give Madden any useful vision...
...Edward Beattie, called on New York Hospital's surgeon-in-chief, Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, to send for the organs that his staff could use. While the body was perfused with oxygenated blood to ward off tissue degeneration, Lillehei's assistants removed the eyes for fresh-cornea transplants, both kidneys and the heart, and rushed them by underground tunnels to waiting surgery teams. Within a few hours, the Lillehei group had transplanted the heart (into a 36-year-old man), both kidneys and one cornea-the second cornea a day later...