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Show Scientist Makes Glass Eyes That Can Be Moved Berlin. Moveable glass eyes which are hard to distinguish from normal eyes because they are subject to the control of optic muscles have been successfully suc-cessfully fitted by Dr. Carl Mueller of Jena, noted artificial eye specialist. Doctor Mueller found that in 90 out of 100 cases of the loss of an eye the muscles and nerves controlling the movement of the eye were unimpaired. He said he fastens connective muscle tissue of animals to a glass eye and grafts these tissues onto the remnants of the human eye muscles. The extremely delicate operation requires re-quires about an hour, and he has been successful in from SO to 90 per cent of his cases. Success depends to a large extent, he asserted, upon the condition of the eye socket after the loss of the eye. |