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Show BUND IE Wonderful Operation at a Hospital in City of Philadelphia i Philadelphia, Aug o One of the most delicate ;md dangerous opiM- ; (ions known to modern surgery was ! performed at the Medico-Chintgic;-.. hospital, when a portion of the cor- nea, the transparent film enveloping the eye, was trephined from tho eyeball eye-ball of a man employed at Baldwin's Ixiconiotive Works. His eye had been permanently destroyed by a sliver of steel, but the cornea was uninjured.. J The trephined piece was transplant- j ed to the eye of a voru.ni who had j ! been blind from infancy. One of liei i j eyes had been removed and she could i riot 3ee with the other. It being af- i lected with neonatorum, the cornea I ! becoming cloiidr-d .nd absolutely ' j opaque The only possible way In j ' which her sight could bo restored ; : was to remove the cornea and trans- j I plant some other substance in Its ! pbu-e. I This v.ns done by the operation i aboe described, and she left the hos- pilai today. She can now readily' dls- j linguifh objects a few feet away, and the snrgconE believe her sight will gradually )cconie stronger. I The operation is the first of its kind I on iccord which has been successful. - i |