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IMPROVED ARTIFICIAL EYES.
THE French have discovered a new use
for that victim of vivisection, the rab
bit. Dr. Ohibret, noticing that when
a human eye had to be excied and a
gless one substituted the resti'ts were
most unsatisfactory, conceived the idea
of using an animr.,'s eye for that pur
pose. After much experimenting he
selected the rabbit, and in last May
performed his firct operation. It had
a qualified success. The success
would have been complete but that
the silk threads need to keep the
foreign eye in its place till nature at
tached it caused suppuration, and in
the end destroyed a portion of the eye.
The rest of it adopted itself to altered
circumstances, and the gain to ocular
surgery seemed assured. Sance then
other operations have been attended
with absolute succeos. ¶fhe new eye
in texture, mobility, and transparency
seemed to match its fellow, and the
irritation produced often by such a
foreign body as glass was avoided Of
course vision was not restored, though
Dr. Chibret, with the enthusiasm of an
innovator, believes that this may yet
be accomplished.
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