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Bandages were removed last fortnight from one Bert Ferguson's sick eye on which Dr. Ben Witt Key, Manhattan ophthalmologist, a fortnight ago had grafted another man's cornea (TIME, Nov. 12). The graft was "taking;" Bert Ferguson could see; Dr. Key had succeeded; Charles E. Greenblatt, who had supplied the cornea from his own diseased eye, was content...
...Charles E. Greenblatt, had a gauze-packed socket, into which a glass eye soon would be set. His extracted eye had had a tumor. His other eye was good. But Nordic Ferguson's other eye was bad. It bore a cataract, an opaque thickening of the cornea that prevented light images going through his pupil and striking upon his retina. So hopeless was his case that he had become an inmate of Manhattan's Home for the Blind. And he is only...
Thirty-two also is Jewish Greenblatt. Equal also are the color, size and shape of their eyes. Coincidal too were the accidents of Dr. Ben Witt Key, ophthalmologist, knowing both their cases. A sure eye surgeon, and a daring, Dr. Key thought of lifting the thickened cornea from Nordic Ferguson's bad eye and grafting on the peeled ball the good cornea of Jewish Greenblatt's bad eye. The Jew amiably agreed to the graft, the Nordic hopefully received it. And hopefully, with eyes bandaged, they waited for results...