Bisbee daily review., 1912-01-21
GRAF TS CORNEA
 ON BLIND EYE
Paris Academy of Medi- cine Is Told of a Successful Ncw
 Operation
OTHER ATTEMPTS MADE

PARIS Jan 19.-Blindness caused by the frequent and hitherto incurable disease of the eornea. which renders that part of the eye opaque. can now be cured. The announcement of the first cure. performed on a human be- ing by grating on the dises sed part Of the eye part of a healthy cornea. { belonging 10 another mans eye, was made this week by pr. Masitot at the Academy of Science, where it. aroused the greatest interest.
 For a long time Dr. Magitot has been experimenting on animals. but he never achieved complete success. About seven months ago the Doctor tried an experiment with a human cornea taken from an eye, which though diseased preserved enough sur face intact to enable him to make use of it. He was able to preserve the cornea without it's losing vitality. and then transferred part of it to the eye of a young man who had lost his sight through his eye having been scorched with quicklime.
 Operation Proves Success The grafted part altered and after a few days Dr. Magitot was able to state, the new part of the cornea was quite clear and had. as it were open ed r little window in the darkness of the patients eye. The young man, who was formerly completely blind. was able to walk alone and generally find his way about without aid after four weeks
 Experiments in human grating are af preent being carried out in Paris most -arnestly with a view to ascer- taining the progress made in this di- rection. The ,Bishee Rtvew cpr- respondent saw one of the foremost surgeons of Paris, who gave some interesting details concerning the ad- vance made in the last twelve months.
 Opens Many Possibilities
 T have no doubt he said that the time is not glr of when We shall be able to graft a finger, an arm, or any other human limb successfully and without danger. That such oN erations are possible has already been proved in America by experiments d3rried out on animals by pr. Carrel Of the Rockefeller Institute. and here by those of several of my colleagues
 
 on human being are concerned. we have not vt achieved what ] call success
 To my mind it is absolutely use less to gnift q limb which it's new pos es canot readily use. We should have achieved this already. had We had at our disposal as many human limbs as we have animal ones.
 But the law is very strict here, and no one can touch a corpse under any circumstances. We are therefore obliged to await the few and far be- tween chances, when, after amputat- ing a patients limb, he consents to let his surgeon take the severed limb.
 T was able to obtain a finger some weeks ago and l grifted it on a yio- linist, who had lost the second finger of his left hand and was therefore un- able to play. For a few days it seem ed as if the operation would turn out successful, but then the second and third phalanges dried up and I had to amputate it again. inspite Of the fact that grating had been partly sue cessful,, that is, as far as the whole of the first phalanx.
 q am so convinced of the ultimate success Of this new branch of sur gery," concluded the doctor" that keep in close touch with those of my patients who have been amputated and who are anxious to have a new limb grafted. They telephone me twice d'y in order that they may be ready for an operation in case sue ceed in procuring a fresh limb. cap able of replacing the one they have lost"