The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-15
SURGEON MAKES
BLIND MAN TO SEE
He Successfully Crafts New Cor
nea on Patients
Eye.
FIRST CURE is ANNOUNCED
Believed That Grating of Limbs
Soon Will Be Com
mon.
FIRST CURE is ANNOUNCED

Paris. January l4-Blindness caused
by the frequent and hitherto incurable
disease OF cornea. which readers that
LuFeu. Ihs announcement OF the first
cure performed Oh d human being ny
grating Oh the dinraseu part Oh the
eye part OF heaIlny cVrneu, beIunY-
ing ~ another mans eye, was .uuue
last week by LIT. AaSItot at the Acad-
envy OF science, Wnuro IL aroused great
est interest
For long time DIR. Magitot has
Deen experimenting on aII.uuIs. put
hc never acn.eteu u cumplclu SUCCEEDS.
About seven months aeo the DOCTOR
Tired au experiment with Il human
eefhea, taken from an eye. WHICH
lhouSa ulsGased. preserved enough
surface intact 10 cnaUle ntm TO muhu
use ot II. Ito Was aDic 70 preserve
the tornea wItnout IT'S losing viluiiLy.
ana then TRANSFER eu part uI al to lnv
eye OIL young inan. VINO nau lost ms
slsnt through h.h eye having been
scuTcneu wan uulcklimo.
lhe grated part uunercd and after
lie" uays, Or. nlubIlvt was abie to
state. the new part vi the cornea WAS
quite clear, anu. IN IL were. opened u
niue window III tho darkness OF the
patients eye. Tho young nun, who
was formerly Completely onnu, was
able to walk alono ana generally tnu
his way about without aid alter four
weuks
Experiments in human grating are
at present being carried out In Paris
most earnestly with u view to ascer-
tanning inc progress.
Il have no doubt" said one of the
foremost surgeons OF Paris. that the
time Is not far OFF when we shall be
aole TO graft a finger, an arm, or any
otner human limb successfully and
without danger. That such operations
are possible has already been proved
IN America by tho experiment carried
out on animals by DR. Carrel of tho
rockefeller Institute, and here by
those OF several of my colleague. and
myself but as far experiments on
human being are concerned wo have
not yet achieved what call success.
To my mind II ls absolutely useless
10 graft limb which its new posses
sor cannot readily use. We should
nave achieved this already. had we had
ut our disposal as many human limbs
as We have animal ones
But the law Is very strict here, and
no one can touch corpse under any
circumstances. We are thererors
Obliged TO await tho few and far be-
tween chances. when. after nmputatlng
palehts limb, ne consents to lot his
surgeon take the severed limb.
was able to obtain q finger soms
weeks ago. and grated 1t on
'iollnlst. who had lost tho second an
seF Oh MS lett hand. and was therefore
unable to play. For few DAYS IT
seemed as II the operation would turn
our successfully. 5ut then the second
ana third phalanges dried UP and 1 had
10 amDntate II again. In spite of the
lact mat grafting had been partly sue
essiui--that ia. as far as the Who'll.
Of the first phalange.
am so convinced of tho ultimate
success OF this new branch of surgery,
concluded the doctor. that I keen In
e.ose touch with those OF my patients
VINO nave been amputated and who are
ANXIOUS To have n new limb grated
ihey teiePhone me twice a day in order
ina! ina. they may be ready for an opera
.oh In case succeed In procuring n
fresh limb capable of replacing trs
one they have lost"