Medicine: Koppanyi's Progress

From the University of Chicago, came tidings of additional experiments in transplantation by Doctor Theodore Koppanyi, already mentioned in these columns for his work on transplanting the eye and the spleen.

Dr. Koppanyi has tunneled a passage in the skull of a fish, and removed one eye with its nerve into this passage, so that the eye, instead of projecting to the side, looks directly upward, the remaining eye being blinded. When the eye is thus transplanted, the fish turns and swims on his side instead of in the usual upright posture. These...

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