Ramon Castroviejo (1905-1987) was an ophthalmologist from Spain who attended medical school at the University of Madrid and spent most of his career in New York City, and who developed techniques for transplanting corneal tissue from people who had recently died into damaged eyes of living patients. The Storz instrument firm made several instruments to his designs.
Ref: “Ramon Castroviejo, 82, Developer of Cornea Transplant Procedures,” New York Times (Jan. 5, 1987), p. B4.
Ophthalmic forceps marked "Made in Hungary / Rozspamen Tes / MONE." In recognition of the large number of Hungarians maimed in the Great War (aka World War I), the National Union of Hungarian Doctors formed Mone, a cooperative society for the manufacture and sale of surgical instruments and orthopedic apparatus.
J. Anderlik, “The ‘Mone’ Surgical Instrument Co-Operative Society, Budapest,” Review of International Co-operation 14 (1921): 265-266.
Ramon Castroviejo (1905-1987) was an ophthalmologist from Spain who attended medical school at the University of Madrid and spent most of his career in New York City, and who developed techniques for transplanting corneal tissue from people who had recently died into damaged eyes of living patients. The Storz instrument firm made several instruments to his designs.
Ref: “Ramon Castroviejo, 82, Developer of Cornea Transplant Procedures,” New York Times (Jan. 5, 1987), p. B4.
Ramon Castroviejo (1905-1987) was an ophthalmologist from Spain who attended medical school at the University of Madrid and spent most of his career in New York City, and who developed techniques for transplanting corneal tissue from people who had recently died into damaged eyes of living patients. The Storz instrument firm made several instruments to his designs.
Ref: “Ramon Castroviejo, 82, Developer of Cornea Transplant Procedures,” New York Times (Jan. 5, 1987), p. B4.
Ramon Castroviejo (1905-1987) was an ophthalmologist from Spain who attended medical school at the University of Madrid and spent most of his career in New York City, and who developed techniques for transplanting corneal tissue from people who had recently died into damaged eyes of living patients. The Storz instrument firm made several instruments to his designs.
Ref: “Ramon Castroviejo, 82, Developer of Cornea Transplant Procedures,” New York Times (Jan. 5, 1987), p. B4.