SURGICAL ACHIEVEMENT
MAKING A BLIND MAN SEE (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, February 2. Following a remarkable operation at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, a man of twenty-nine was able to look at the world for the first time since he lost his sight when two years old, following an attack of measles. New corneas from the eyes of a blind man and woman were grafted on his eyes to replace the diseased corneas which, deprived him of sight.
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Evening Star, Issue 21637, 5 February 1934, Page 9
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82SURGICAL ACHIEVEMENT Evening Star, Issue 21637, 5 February 1934, Page 9
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