Eye bank Eye bank Eye banks recover, prepare and deliver donated eyes for cornea transplants and research. The first successful cornea transplant was performed in 1905 and the first eye bank was founded in 1944. Currently, in the United States, eye banks provide tissue for over 80,000 cornea transplants each year to treat conditions such as keratoconus and corneal scarring. In some cases, the white of the eye (sclera) is used to surgically repair recipient eyes. Unlike other organs and tissues, there is an adequate supply of corneas for transplants in the United States, and excess tissue is exported internationally, where there
The Eye in the Door The Eye in the Door The Eye in the Door is a novel by Pat Barker, first published in 1993, and forming the second part of the "Regeneration" trilogy. "The Eye in the Door" is set in London, beginning in mid-April, 1918, and continues the interwoven stories of Dr William Rivers, Billy Prior, and Siegfried Sassoon begun in "Regeneration". It ends some time before the conclusion of the First World War later the same year. The third part of the trilogy, "The Ghost Road", continues the story. Whereas "Regeneration" is an anomalous, but not unique, mixture of fact and fiction,