BLINDNESS ENDS AFTER 20 YEARS
SUCCESSFUL CORNEAL GRAFT (N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) SYDNEY, June 12. Twenty - seven - year - old Stewart Kerry, of Eastwood, an outer Sydney suburb, can see again after 20 years of blindness. The restoration of his sight is the result of a graft which he had recently from the eye of a living woman. The bandages whic have covered his eye since the operation was performed four weeks ago were removed at the week-end. Stewart could see quite clearly the doctors and nurses standing around his bed at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. "The doctor had warned me time and again that it might not be successful. but I was always confident that I would see again,” he said today. “I could not believe the operation would fail—and it did not.” The cornea used in the graft came from the eye of Mrs Nina Ward, aged 50 of Lakemba, whose eye had to be removed because of a tumour.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27993, 13 June 1956, Page 6
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