RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 First cornea transplants meant blind WW I veterans saw first sights in 40 years
JF Canadian Medical Association Journal
JO CMAJ
FD Canadian Medical Association
SP 1325
OP 1326
VO 155
IS 9
A1 P. Wilton
YR 1996
UL http://www.cmaj.ca/content/155/9/1325.abstract
AB Eddie Baker, who was blinded during WW I, played a key role in the founding of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind and Canada's first Eye Bank. The latter development meant that some soldiers blinded between 1914 and 1918 had their sight restored in 1956, when the bank opened.