Word: corneas
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...most spectacular operations developed in the last few years is the transplantation of fragile corneas from the eyes of dead men to the eyes of the living. When Evangelist Minister U. G. Harding of Portland, Ore. heard that such an operation might restore sight to his failing left eye, he sent a form letter to twelve condemned men in California's San Quentin prison, asking for a cornea. But not one could he get. Fortnight ago, Rev. Mr. Harding visited his 80-year-old friend, Mrs. Margaret Carr, who lay dying in Berkeley, Calif. Just before she closed...
...Snakes, contrary to popular supposition, have good vision. Those tested included garter snakes, king snakes, ribbon snakes and rattlesnakes. They see worst just before shedding their skins, best just after shedding, because the snake's cornea grows opaque as shedding time nears and is sloughed off with the skin...
...Russia, where physicians developed the art of preserving the blood of accident victims in order to build up a reserve or "blood bank" for transfusions,*eye specialists who pioneered in the art of transplanting new corneas to the eyes of the blind have recently established "cornea banks," by removing the corneas of dead people for use in transplanting operations...
Another impediment is the law of property in corpses. They belong to the next of kin or friendship. When Dr. Green applied to San Francisco's Health Commissioner Jacob Casson Geiger and Coroner Thomas Byers Woods Leland for cooperation, they reminded him that peeling a cornea from a body was precisely like performing an autopsy: it requires written permission of the corpse's owners...
...ophthalmologists enucleated the old man's left eye, stripped it of part of its transparent cornea which they immediately substituted for the young man's opaque cornea. So commonplace has this eye operation become (corneal grafts may be taken from the eyes of stillborn babies or persons who have just died) that Charity Hospital surgeons assured Frank Chabina that within two weeks he would probably see as well as ever. Commented the grateful old donor: ''It looks a lot different to an old man like me than to a young fellow with all his life ahead...