MAN'S NEW EYELIDS.
MODERN SURGICAL WONDER. Formed from skin taken from his arm, two eyelids have been grafted on to a man's face at a Liverpool hospital. Even the eyelashes have started to grow, the ' 'Daily Mail" - records. The man, a chemist's assistant, who desires to remain anonymous, is a citizen of the United States, and came to England from California during the war. While working in a Gretna munitions factory in' June, 1917, a phiai of sulphuric acid burst, and the liquid splashed over his face. His loft eye lid was completely burned away, and the other partly destroyed. Fortunately his eyes escaped. "Since this accident I have suffered intense agony," t.lvs man stated, during an interview. "My eyes, unable to blink, were always «Iry, and as there were no lids to cover them they were continually tired. I became a patient at hospitals in variious parts of the country, including Carlisle, Edinburgh, Manchester, ana Liverpool. At Edinburgh an attempt to graft new eyelids was unsuccessful. About a couple of months ago I entered a. Liverpool hospital, and a siirgeon suocessfuilv grafted two eyelids formed from the skin of'niv arm." The man's face shows littJe indication that an operation lias been performed, and he is now able to close his eyes.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18184, 22 September 1924, Page 15
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