European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 18, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday october 18, 1985 to i t n. Jaq j 0 1oioi by go . It. Col Edward Rashid examines the right Eye of spec. 4 Richard Beaty. After transplanting Cornea tissue from a donor in the United states into Beaty s Eye go optimistic about Success of 2nd transplanted Cornea by Chris Estes Force medical Center in in More staff writer Wiesbaden the future looks brighter for a Soldier because of an operation he Hopes will save his career and the vision in one Eye. Spec. 4 Richard scaly received a Cornea transplant oct. 11. In the first such operation performed in the air Trephina is used to remove Par of patient s Cornea. Which is then replaced by donor tissue forc l r i Wiesbaden i than a dec Ade according to Hospital officials. Beaty is an Interior electrician assigned to cob 293rd eng in in Baum older. The Cornea flown from the slates was transplanted to his right Eye in a 90-Minule operation by air Force or. . Col Edward Rashid. In May 1983, Beaty injured his Eye in a jogging Acci Dent in Fountain colo., near fort Carson where he was stationed. He fell his glasses shattered and a shard entered the Eye. His body recently rejected a Cornea transplant performed in Denver right after the Accident. Beaty a 22-year-old from Paydon City w.va., faces a medical Board which May discharge him from the army. He fears trying to enter the electrical Job Market in the slates with Only one "1 Don t want to be a grocery Packer for my whole he said if the Board allows it he would probably remain in the service. It really would t affect me Hal much if i was t married. But 1 have a wife. I Don l want to be like a lot of people who gel out and have to go Back to live wild their parents he said. Five surgeries in two years this makes six is really nothing to brag about he said hut if it s going to give me my vision Back yeah i la Lake Rashid. An ophthalmologist who arrived in Wiesbaden in july said he performed the operation with some of his own equipment brought from Wilford Hall at Lackland fab Texas where he had been a Cornea specialist. He said the old Cornea is removed with a knife called a Trephina. Its Blade is circular and is Laid on the Eye and gently turned. The same knife is used to Cut a Patch of the donor tissue so that it perfectly fills in the space in the Eye. The old Cornea is removed and the Patch is put in ils place. Then using thread one third the diameter of a human hair the new Cornea is sutured to the Eye. Rashid said he used 16 sutures in Beaty s Eye. He said the Lissue came from the san Antonio Baptist Eye Bank and was processed through the Central Lye Bank at Lackland fab. From there it was flown to Germany via is. Louis on a commercial Airliner. Corneal tissue which he said is bottled and put on ice is Good for three or four Days. Previous transplant recipients were sent to the stale for the surgery he said. "1 thought i had everything worked out Rashid said but when i picked the tissue up 1 had to pay s4 Rashid said that unless the demand for tissue grows too Large he will continue to perform transplants wit tissue flown from the slates. World to tray tiny heart surgery survivor released from London Hospital London a a spokesman for a London Hospital said the smallest baby Ever to survive open Harl surgery has been sent Home where she is reported doing Well. Sarah Floyd who was born four weeks premature was Only three weeks old and weighed less than four pounds when she had the operation six weeks ago at Brompton Hospital. Surgeon Christopher Lincoln mended a Hole in her heart repaired a valve and reconnected mis Rould veins. As far As we know nowhere in the world has such an operation been performed on a baby so the Hospital spokesman said. 44-year-old Man guns Down teen for playing loud music ant1biis. France a a teen Ager was shot dead in the Center of this Riviera Toun because his car radio was playing at full blast police said. They said Jacques Orin 44, turned himself in at a police station Only a few Yards from the scene after shoot ing Bruno Alba 19, with a Rifle. Alba and a Friend were in their parked car doors open and the radio playing loudly when Orin asked them to turn it Down. Police quoted him As saying that was fed up with the music and 1 had warned them Many he told police la it when icy replied rudely he got his Rifle and shut at them killing Alba but missing his Friend. Hiccups cured by pressing ears of patients chinese paper says pf.k1ng a a doctor in Southern China s Yun Nan province has cured 350 cases of hiccups by pressing the ears of patients the English language China daily said. Inspired by an ancient theory on the ear s relation to the vital organs. Or. Deng Guanghu of the Quin traditional chinese Hospital began his research in 1974, when he met a peasant who had been Hiccup ing for Liucc years in newspaper said. Deng cured the patient in three months Wilh iwo to three minute daily treatments applying pressure on his outer cars with a Sharp object the paper said. It quoted inc doctor As claiming his treatment i effective for mild and chronic hiccups and has no Side effects. For mild cases of hiccups anyone May try the method by himself Wilh the fall Heads of two matches toothpicks pins or Needles it quoted the 45-year-old physician assaying. In May the cure was awarded a first prize by the Yunnan foundation for rewarding scientific gadgets and technological inventions the report said. . Connoisseurs to be first to Sample new kenyan wines Nairobi Kenya up Kenya has launched ils first locally produced grape wine and producers say connoisseurs in the United Stales Are going to be among the first to get a taste of the new cast african Vintage. The wines arc grown at an Altitude of Over 6,000 feet on the gentle slopes above Lake Nai Vasha which lies virtually on the Equator about 50 Miles North Cal of Nairobi. We Hope the wines will eventually establish a name for themselves abroad said Nigel Pavitt director of the Kenya wineries. We have made initial Contact in the United Stales and will try to ship a few cases Over to see How it goes Down Carters travel to Katmandu Hope to see mount Everest Katmandu Nepal a former . President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn. Arrived in Katmandu on thursday for a nearly two week trek through the Annapurna Sanctuary and the mount by Crest Region. Asked whether he would like logo to the base of mount Everest the world s tallest Mountain. Carter said we Hope so. If All of us feel we came to Nepal to meet his majesty King Biron Ora and inc Queen and to learn about this country " car Ter told reporters. And we Are going a. Do some trekking both in the Annapurna area and also in the Everest Ever Cal is in the northeastern pan of the Himalayan kingdom along Nepal s Border with China s Tibet Region. Although Carter described it As a Privalo visit he was receded at the Airport by nepalese minister for foreign affairs Ranadhir Subba and foreign Secretary Bishwa Pradhan
