Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-03-31

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ExPERTagNTs IN EYH-pLANrTNG.
In May, 1895, Or. Gilbert Of Clcrmont
made the attempt 10 transplant a living
rabbits eye to the eyo-s0cket Of person
A girl OF seventeen years OF age had o
grnpe-swclling upon her eye which made
| its removal necessary. As soon as the
eye was taken out the doctor instantly re-
| moved The rabbits eve, leaving around
the corner the narrow edge Of tho lig0
! turo. Washing it in an antiseptic solu-I
ton, he then placed 1t in the eyc.sdcket
ot the patient, sewing the ligature TO that
OF the patients eye with few stitches.
4 The eye appeared to live Tor while, but
| the liquid flowed out, and the operation
was not success. The shell, however,
remained In Its place, and looks Like the
remains Of the human eye.
! soon olter Terrier, Rohmer, and finally
| Bradford OF Boston made similar expert
Inents. Terrier rst operated upon a
| strong, healthy man, whose eye had been
| hurt by IN accident. Instead OF remOy-
Log the sclerOtic--the cell liquid which
lsurrounds the eye--he kept 10 there, but
! IN spite Of this prccaulOn the experiment
! failed. The patieng Of Rohmer was a
woman fouy-six years old. Instead OF a
| rabbits eye, TINS surgeon took dogs
| for bis experiment. The result was less
successful than that Of the others, bus
the shcll OF the eye remained living sey-
eral dag, when, becoming Unnamed, 1t
wss removed, Touring the other eye might
suffer from It's presence. Mr.. Brad
ford Of All the expcrmenters, seems
to have met with tho most success. lie
operated upon the eye Of a sailor, who
for years had been troubled with an III
curahic eye disease. Increasing the
unulbcr OF stitches in joining the liga-
tutesi he also succeeded Ia uniting The
optic ntrypa % the 1nan's eye and The
IHDulb - NulhtiHl Will bAtNHGf 'Fti
the eye, which was not removed uutil
tho lapse 81 soyea days AZ llie eUd
Of this fine The eye secuted pretty
hrm IN rs SOCKET, but The corner az
peurcd Opaque. Eighteen days after the
corner bccare transparent, the eye solid,
and its movements natural The or
Grafton was peri Ct success except in
one important particular. AS viii be
seen, cyo. lransplant.ng ias not reached
the certainty OF surgical success, as
when the eye is restored the restoration
of the eye.sight is out Of the question,
the operation merely replacing a lost eye
with an animals eye The operations
fall far below the expectations the en-.
thuslasts had attached TO them, so that
the time when we can change the color of
our eyes as we can the color OF our hair
or the form of our teeth has not yet ar
rived. However, 1t may come, as the in
ventive spirit Of man is travelling upon
various roads Just al the present time.
THE SPHINX.