Medicine: Eyes: Newt, Rat, Human

Theodor Koppanyi, young Viennese biologist, who claims to have succeeded in transplanting seeing eyes in small animals, is coming to America at the invitation of a Chicago hospital for a stay of a year or two to conduct more ambitious researches. So far his experiments have been confined to rats and rabbits, but in Chicago he hopes to work on monkeys and larger mammals.

The grafted eyes produced by Koppanyi look normal, and it is said that ihe animals show normal reflexes to the stimulus of light. Proof is difficult, however, that the nerves...

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