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BIGGER, Samuel Lenox L. (1809 – 1891)

1809 – 1891

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1837 CE

#5850.1

An inquiry into the possibility of transplanting the cornea, with the view of relieving blindness…

Bigger, a Dublin surgeon, successfully grafted a cornea of one gazelle onto that of another. According to this paper, he first performed this operation in 1835 while he was “a prisoner with a Nomadic tribe of Ar…