He transplanted corneas into both the patient's eyes. To get around the lack of fine material to sew the cornea to the eye, he used strips of the conjunctiva - the lining of the white of the eye - prising up one end of a strip and using it to "tape down" the new cornea.Aren't you glad you weren't living 100 years ago?
To cut out the cornea for transplant, he used a trephine, a circular surgical instrument with a cutting edge, powered by clockwork.
He then sewed the patient's eyelids shut for 10 days to allow time for the cornea and the conjunctiva strips to "knit" together.
Dec 7, 2005
Here's to Doctor Zirm
He's the man who performed the first successful cornea transplant 100 years ago.
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