Word: corneas
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...small hemorrhages destructive of the eye's retina, though he is "able to perceive objects with the aid of strong sunlight and positive periscopic lenses." Dr. Castroviejo is, on the other hand, famed as the author of over 400 operations involving the grafting of a normal piece of cornea in a diseased eye. Reduced to one-syllable words, the doc is good but the case is bad. Chance of recovery is, in the full sense of the word, negligible...
Most of the men have kept on working, except in severe cases, where small grey specks on the cornea blur vision. Usually the disease runs its course in two to three weeks, brings no serious aftereffects...
...Vitamin B2 (riboflavin): for blindness caused by inflammation of the cornea, certain skin disorders...
...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...
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...