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		Eduard Zirm, born in 1863 in Vienna, Austria, attended the University of Vienna where he studied medicine.
		Dr. Zirm worked in ophthalmology at Vienna Univ-Augenklinik and was eventually offered a position at a newly formed eye clinic in a rural area of Austria (now the Czech Republic).
		A year later, Glogar was brought to Dr. Zirm's clinic-while at the same time an 11 year-old boy, Karl Brauer, was in an accident which left him with metal pieces in his eye.
	www.restoresight.org /general/anniversary.htm (240 words)

	Eye Bank Association of America
		Eduard Zirm, born in 1863 in Vienna, Austria, attended the University of Vienna where he studied medicine.
		Dr. Zirm worked in ophthalmology at Vienna Univ-Augenklinik and was eventually offered a position at a newly formed eye clinic in a rural area of Austria (now the Czech Republic).
		A year later, Glogar was brought to Dr. Zirm's clinic-while at the same time an 11 year-old boy, Karl Brauer, was in an accident which left him with metal pieces in his eye.
	restoresight.org /general/anniversary.htm (240 words)

	Eduard Zirm at AllExperts
		Eduard Konrad Zirm (18 March 1863 - 15 March 1944) was an ophthalmologist who performed the first successful organ transplantÂ¹ on 7 December 1905.
		Zirm was born in Vienna, Austria in 1863.
		After graduation, Zirm became an eye doctor at the Second Eye Clinic in Vienna, then accepted a position a position at a hospital in Olomouc, Moravia in 1892.
	en.allexperts.com /e/e/ed/eduard_zirm.htm (592 words)

	Dr. Zirm - Die erste geglückte Organtransplantation - 1905
		Dr. Eduard Konrad Zirm befand jedoch die alten, lichtschwachen und unhygienischen Räume nicht als angemessenen Platz, um das Augenlicht wieder herzustellen.
		Juli feierte Eduard Konrad Zirm nicht den amerikanischen Unabhängigkeitstag, sondern den Beschluss des mährischen Landesausschusses, einen eigenen Augenpavillon für 120 Betten zu bauen.
		Mathias Zirm tritt in die Fußstapfen seines erfolgreichen Großvaters und bereichert die Welt der Medizin durch seine Glanzleistungen.
	www.drzirm.org /zirmgeschichte.htm (861 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Health \| The gift of sight - 100 years on
		It was carried out by Dr Eduard Zirm, an ophthalmic specialist who had been trying to achieve a successful transplant for some time.
		Dr Zirm, in common with other specialists across the world, had long been trying to achieve a successful cornea transplant.
		The first UK cornea transplant did not take place until 1930, perhaps because of a view that Dr Zirm's success might be hard to replicate.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/health/4502994.stm (1052 words)

	The Queen Victoria Hospital - News - Press release detail
		On 7 December 1905 Austrian surgeon Dr Eduard Zirm claimed his place in the history books when he performed a cornea transplant for Alois Glogar, a labourer who had been blinded in an accident at work.
		Back in Dr Zirm’s day, injury or diseases such as these might have condemned a sufferer to a life of partial or complete sight loss, but today a new cornea can be transplanted in as little as an hour.
		Dr Zirm may not have appreciated it at the time, but the success of the operation owes much to the special characteristics of the cornea, particularly the fact that it is nourished not by blood but by tears.
	www.qvh.nhs.uk /news/pressreleasedetail.asp?articleid=916 (930 words)

	SpivO Encyclopedia
		The first successful corneal allograft transplant was performed in 1837 in a gazelle model; the first successful human corneal transplant, a keratoplastic operation, was performed by Eduard Zirm in Austria in 1905.
		Pioneering work in the surgical technique of transplantation was made in the early 1900s by the French surgeon Alexis Carrel, with Charles Guthrie, with the transplantation of arteries or veins.
		Such information could help physicians reduce the use of immunosuppressive drugs, lowering drug therapy expenses while reducing the morbidity associated with liver biopsies, improve the daily life of transplant patients, and could prolong the life of the transplanted organ.
	spivo.com /encyclopedia/?title=Transplant (4612 words)

	Cornea transplant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		If the rest of the eye is healthy, then it should be possible to recover normal vision.
		The first cornea transplant was first performed in 1905, by Eduard Zirm, making it one of the first types of transplant surgery successfully performed.
		Advances in microscopes enabled surgeons to get a better view of the surgical field, while advances in materials science enabled them to use sutures finer than a human hair.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cornea_transplant (1855 words)

	Dr. Zirm - Die erste geglückte Organtransplantation - 1905
		Zirm worked in ophthalmology at Vienna Univ-Augenklinik and was eventually offered a position at a newly formed eye clinic in a rural area of Austria (now the Czech Republic).
		This momentous medical milestone was performed by Dr. Eduard Zirm in 1905, in what is now known as the Czech Republic.
		Den första lyckade hornhinnetransplantationen på en människa utfördes av ögonläkaren Eduard Konrad Zirm i Österrike så tidigt som år 1905.
	www.drzirm.org /linkszirm.htm (543 words)

	Dr. Zirm - Die erste geglückte Organtransplantation - 1905
		Dezember 1905 gelang es dem Primararzt des Krankenhauses in Olmütz (Mähren), Dr. Eduard Konrad Zirm, Vertreter der berühmten Wiener Schule, das bis zu diesem Zeitpunkt Unmögliche: Er führte die erste erfolgreiche Organtransplantation* durch.
		Daher verschnürte Dr. Zirm sie mit Erfolg von außen.
		Die von Zirm entdeckte und entwickelte Operationsmethode ist heute noch Basis für die Heilung von Hornhautschäden.
	www.drzirm.org (361 words)

	Blind World Magazine - Requested Article.
		But the basic technique is still the same as that used in the first successful corneal graft.
		It was carried out by Eduard Zirm, chief of medicine in Olomouc in Moravia, now part of the Czech Republic, on December 7, 1905, and launched the transplant age.
		Dr Zirm transplanted the cornea from an 11-year-old boy who had a deep foreign-body injury to one eye, leaving him blind in that eye and in intractable pain, into a 43-year-old labourer who had been blinded in an accident while slaking lime.
	www.home.earthlink.net /~blindworld2/MEDICAL/5-12-08-01.htm (659 words)

	Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Trust : News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		On 7th December 1905, Dr Konrad Eduard Zirm secured his place in history by performing the first corneal transplant.
		Dr Zirm, who was born in Vienna in 1863, was Head of Medicine at Olomouc Hospital in Movravia (now part of the Czech Republic).
		The recipient of the transplant was Alois Glogar, a labourer who had suffered burns to both eyes through a lime injury at work.
	www.moorfields.org.uk /AboutUs/News?portal_skin=print&news_id=4243 (214 words)

	Heartland Lions Eye Banks
		In collaboration with the Eye Bank Association of America and the rest of the nation's eye banking community, the Heartland Lions Eye Banks will commemorate the centennial of the first corneal transplant.
		This momentus medical milestone was performed by Dr. Eduard Zirm in 1905, in what is now known as the Czech Republic.
		Zirm used corneal tissue from an 11 year old boy who had suffered an eye injury that did not affect the cornea.
	www.hleb.org /anniversary.html (139 words)

	Cataract Surgery \| World of Invention
		In 1905 Austrian physician Eduard Zirm performed the first known cornea transplant by transplanting the cornea of one person into the eye of a blind person.
		Basing his work on Zirm, Doctor Elschwig of Prague also successfully performed a cornea transplant in 1914.
		Since 1944, eye banks have been established in many places around the world where donated eyes may be stored in order to be used in such transplants.
	www.bookrags.com /research/cataract-surgery-woi (567 words)

	Stem Cell Treatments
		The cornea, which is the transparent window of the eye, is a particularly suitable site for transplants.
		The transplant carried out in 1905 by Dr. Eduard Zirm.
		The recipient was Alois Gloger, a labourer who had been blinded in an accident.
	www.bootstrike.com /Genetics/StemCells/treatments3.html (638 words)

	Corneal Eye Surgery \| Medopedia
		Like any eye condition a person will notice a slight affect to their vision and this will normally give them the push needed to go and visit an optician.
		It may be amazing to hear that Eduard Zirm carried out the first cornea transplant in 1905.
		This is believed to be the first successful type of transplant surgery ever recorded.
	www.medopedia.com /corneal-eye-surgery (505 words)

	Experts Talk About Corneal Dystrophy, Fuchs' Syndrome, and Transplants
		Zirm.) Dr. Castroviejo was boo'ed out of a doctors' conference in Chicago in 1947, EVEN THOUGH he had ten of his successfully transplanted patients there in the back of the room!
		Just to round out this information, the first corneal transplant in the world was performed by Dr. Eduard Zirm in 1905.
		Ernest Fuchs was born in 1851 and Dr. Eduard Zirm was born in 1863.
	www.fuchs-dystrophy.org /experts.html (570 words)

	84% of the UK Value 'Sight' Over All Other Senses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		On 7 December, 1905, Dr Eduard Zirm, the Chief of Medicine of a hospital in Olomouc in Moravia (now part of the Czech Republic), performed the world's first successful cornea transplant.
		This milestone marked the start of 100 years of sight-saving operations and the birth of the transplant age.
		The method used by Dr Zirm is still the basis for cornea transplantation, which restores sight to more than 2,200 people in the UK every year.
	www.forrelease.com /D20051207/1303802.html (554 words)

	Cornea transplant also known as a corneal graft
		If the rest of the eye is healthy, then it should be possible to recover normal vision.
		The first cornea transplant was first performed in 1905, by Eduard Zirm, making it one of the first types of transplant surgery successfully performed.
		Advances in microscopes enabled surgeons to get a better view of the surgical field, while advances in materials science enabled them to use sutures finer than a human hair.
	www.eyes-lasik.com /cornea-transplant.htm (1559 words)

	Blind World Magazine - Requested Article. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		On 7 December, 1905, Dr Eduard Zirm, the Chief of Medicine of a hospital in Olomouc in Moravia (now part of the Czech Republic), performed the world's first successful cornea transplant.
		This milestone marked the start of 100 years of sight-saving operations and the birth of the transplant age.
		The method used by Dr Zirm is still the basis for cornea transplantation, which restores sight to more than 2,200 people in the UK every year.
	www.home.earthlink.net /~blindworld2/MEDICAL/5-12-07-01.htm (512 words)

	Cataract Surgery
		In 1905 Austrian physician Eduard Zirm performed the first known corneal transplant (the removal of an object or organ from one body to another) by transplanting the cornea of one person into the eye of a blind person.
		Basing his work on Zirm, Dr. Elschwig of Prague, Czechoslavakia, also successfully performed a corneal transplant in 1914.
		Cataract surgery becomes necessary when the lens of the eye becomes 'clouded' and no longer allows light to reach the retina.
	www.discoveriesinmedicine.com /Bar-Cod/Cataract-Surgery.html (498 words)

	Nine-year High For Sight-saving Cornea Transplant Operations, UK
		About 65% of cornea-only donors are over 60 years old and over half (52%) of all cornea transplant recipients are aged 60-89.
		-- On 7 December, 1905, Dr Eduard Zirm, the Chief of Medicine of a hospital in Olomouc in Moravia (now part of the Czech Republic), performed the world's first successful cornea transplant.
		The method used by Dr Zirm is still the basis for cornea transplantation today.
	www.medicalnewstoday.com /medicalnews.php?newsid=44061&nfid=rssfeeds (920 words)

	The Daily Record - NEWS - THE GIFT OF SIGHT
		Since then, the surgery has helped thousands of people regain their sight and transformed their lives.
		Amazingly, the method used by Dr Eduard Zirm in Moravia, now in the Czech Republic, has remained virtually unchanged since 1905.
		He removed a patient's damaged cornea, the clear surface on the front of the eye, and replaced it with a disc of healthy tissue from a donor's eye.
	www.dailyrecord.co.uk /news/tm_objectid=16456518&method=full&siteid=66633&headline=the-gift-of-sight--name_page.html (958 words)

	Cornea Research Foundation - Trischa Zorn - Dr. Zirm
		His grandfather, Dr. Eduard Zirm, was the Chief of Medicine of a hospital in what is now the Czech Republic, when he performed the first successful organ transplant.
		We interviewed Dr. Zirm during his visit to Indianapolis about his own illustrious career as a researcher and ophthalmologist.
		I am grateful for my wonderful family and could not have made the contributions I have without their support and understanding.
	www.cornea.org /dr_zirm.html (830 words)

	Transplant Timeline – Other & Unusual - MedHunters
		Eduard Zirm, a surgeon working in the Moravian town of Olmutz, performs the first corneal transplant to maintain some degree of transparency.
		Few other surgeons match Zirm's success until after the Second World War, when very fine needles and finer silk become available.
		Erich Lexer of Germany reports performing the first knee-joint transplant (from a cadaver), but the procedure is unsuccessful.
	www.medhunters.com /articles/transplantTimelineOtherUnusual.html (1308 words)

	THE LION Magazine-September 2005
		On December 7, 1905, Dr. Eduard Zirm performed the world’s first cornea transplant at Olomouc Hospital in the present-day Czech Republic.
		He transplanted corneas (the thin, outermost layer of clear tissue in front of the eyes) from 11-year-old accident victim Karl Brauer into Alois Glogar, a farmer whose corneas had suffered chemical burns.
		Other surgeons soon learned about Zirm’s sight-restoring procedure known as a keratoplasty.
	www.lionsclubs.org /EN/content/news_mag_cornea_sept05.shtml (932 words)

	[medgadget] The Gift of Sight - Nursing Informatics Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		One hundred years ago, on December 7th 1905, Dr Konrad Eduard Zirm secured his place in history by performing the first transplant of a cornea.
		This was the very first successful human transplant of any tissue.
		Read Dr. Eduard Konrad Zirm's biography at Eduard Konrad Zirm Foundation...
	www.informaticsnurse.com /forums/general-technology-news/8943-medgadget-gift-sight.html (349 words)

	The Cornea Research Foundation
		How would it feel to be the grandchild of a famous grandparent?
		Eduard Zirm, was the Chief of Medicine of a hospital in what is now the Czech Republic, when he performed the first successful organ transplant.
		This study will determine which combination of medications helps provide the best outcomes after cataract surgery.
	www.cornea.org (101 words)

	German-world.com \| The Internet Meeting Point and Portal for the German speaking world
		The first successful organ transplantation ever was performed by Dr. Konrad Eduard Zirm on December 7th 1905.
		Eduard Zirm, the Chief of Medicine of the hospital in Olomouc (now in Moravia in the Czech Republic) and representative of the famous Medical School in Vienna, was able to do what had previously been impossible: He performed the first successful organ transplant.
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	www.german-world.com /people_e.htm (467 words)

	Transplants of delight - Health - Specials - smh.com.au
		But while the surgery was successful (and contributed to Carrel winning the 1912 Nobel Prize for medicine) the dogs died after rejecting the organs for reasons not then understood.
		In 1905, Dr Eduard Zirm struck gold with the first successful cornea transplant at his Austrian eye clinic, restoring the sight of one Alois Glogar.
		But for other types of transplant, rejection remained an insurmountable problem.
	www.smh.com.au /news/health/transplants-of-delight/2005/07/14/1120934333861.html?from=moreStories (834 words)

	Donors plea by Harriet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Her call for more people to join the register comes 100 years after the first successful cornea transplant was performed.
		Dr Eduard Zirm conducted the operation on December 7, 1905, at a hospital in Olomouc, Moravia (now part of the Czech Republic).
		Harriet, who lived on Cranleigh Drive, Brooklands, but is now at Durham University, said: "I'm incredibly grateful.
	www.metronews.co.uk /news/article/1/1426_donors_plea_by_harriet.html (579 words)

	organtransplantation - Ask.com Web Search
		Eduard Konrad Zirm was born in Vienna on March 18, 1863.
		Because of his father’s early death, his mother, Luise, was the steady, caring and
		On December 7, 1905 Dr. Eduard Zirm, the Chief of Medicine of the hospital in Olomouc (now in Moravia in the Czech Republic) and representative of
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