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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...
...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...
Promptly her two pious daughters bequeathed a cornea to Dr. Harding. Said they: "We hope this can be a living memorial to Mother...
...Francisco, one-eyed Housepainter Charles T. Ketterman saw newspaper accounts of cornea transplantations to restore sight (see p. 20). Instead of trying to buy a cornea to repair his blind eye, he offered for sale the cornea of his one sound eye. His price: $1,500. His reason: "I have seen enough misery...