The History of Corneal Transplantation

The Gothic and the Debate on Science in Spain: Echoes of Frankenstein in «Un crimen científico», Pascual López and El árbol de la ciencia

“…The surgical advances at the time make Ojeda's transplants not even remotely possible. Experiments with corneal transplants had been developed since the early nineteenth century (Crawford et al, 2013;Van Rij et al, 2016). The first attempts at animal-to-animal corneal transplant were performed by Franz Reisinger in 1818, who, similarly to the fictional Ojeda, used rabbits and chickens.…”