“An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind…”
Martin Luther King
The impressively named Ramon Castroviejo Briones was born in Spain during 1904. After completing his undergraduate medical education in Madrid he travelled to America, where he spent the rest of his professional career. Castroviejo became a renown pioneer in ophthalmology. In his early practice he encountered numerous injuries to the eye, often occupational, that resulted in irreversible damage to the cornea. Corneal distortion, opacity and scarring was impossible to correct by refraction, and was a leading cause of visual impairment or loss. Castroviejo devised and championed the procedure of corneal transplantation. Although the cornea was immunologically inert and didn’t require suppression therapies, it was a technically challenging tissue to operate on, The pioneering surgeon was forced to design many new instruments, such as the fine needle holder we see above, and which still has his name attached to it. He was also one of the first to take a microscope into the operating room. I didn’t need Castroviejo instruments in my surgical practice, but now employ a set to built model aircraft under magnification. #microsurgeryfounder #letsmakelemonade
Pen Paint and Scalpel 