MARVELLOUS EYE OPERATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 23, 28 January 1939, Page 15 (Supplement)

MARVELLOUS EYE OPERATION.

A seemingly miraculous operation to give the blind sight was performed at the Royal Eye Hospital in South London some years ago. A girl, almost blind from birth, Alice Margaret Vernall, wm threatened with the failure of her one seeing eye. The surgeons thought it might be made good by grafting on to it the cornea of another eye. This eye with its cornea lad been preserved intact by modern scientific methods after it had been removed from another patient whose complaint made it certain he moit lose it. The eye thus removed was sound enough for the purpose of supplying a cornea, the transparent hoary covering of the eyeball. This was grafted on to the girl's weak eye, and in a few weeks, she could see better than ever. A NEW TEXTILE. The discovery of a new textile was announced some months ago. The new fibre is known as cotine, and production on a commercial scale is soon to be begun. The fibre was grown experimentally last year, and a company was formed in England to develop it commercially. Produced by a textile chemist after many years of botanical and chemical research, cotine is a perennial plant resembling cotton but less costly to produce and capable of being grown in most temperate and semi-tropical countries. The claim is made that it is 40 per cent stronger than cotton, and it is said that it can be spun on existing machinery and in combination with other fibres, including wool. Yarns produced from cotine can be made up into a variety of fabrics.