This is an exceedingly rare collection of glass eyes used for teaching
at the San Francisco Eye Institute (Greens Eye Hospital – where the
B.& L. Greens refractor was developed). They were brought around the
Horn in 1870 from Austria. They are hand blown glass. They depict such
diseases as corneal staphyloma, calcific degeneration, corectopia,
corneal scar,pterygium,corneal ulcer, scleritis and so on. Courtesy of
the Don Komick collection.
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