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22-year-old Beverly Dickie was almost blind two years ago, After a cornea transplant she can now read temperature on a thermometer
22-year-old Beverly Dickie was almost blind two years ago, After a cornea transplant she can now read temperature on a thermometer

22-year-old Beverly Dickie was almost blind two years ago, After a cornea transplant she can now read temperature on a thermometer

Date9/22/1969
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Original Toronto Star caption: 22-year-old Beverly Dickie was almost blind two years ago, After a cornea transplant she can now read temperature on a thermometer
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0026796F
and Gerald Sinclair, 20, who received cornea transplants
and Gerald Sinclair, 20, who received cornea transplants
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Able to see clearly for the first time in her life, 14-year-old Bonilyne Chambers doesn't mind the bandage temporarily replaced over her right eye. Sh(...)
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Mending, Peter Alley and son, Tom, are both recovering well from a transplant operation at Toronto Western Hospital last week in which the father dona(...)
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In support: Anne Harrison, who had a double lung transplant four years ago, expresses support for animal research yesterday
In support: Anne Harrison, who had a double lung transplant four years ago, expresses support for animal research yesterday
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In sixteen years the confident smile on the face of June Peters hasn't faded, even though a kidney transplant failed in '82 and she has lost both legs through kidney damage
In sixteen years the confident smile on the face of June Peters hasn't faded, even though a kidney transplant failed in '82 and she has lost both legs through kidney damage
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After Two Eye transplants, James Doggart, 74, manages to read the scriptures for the hundredth time
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Two years later
Two years later
1/7/1989
Kidney transplant patient 16-year-old Paul Pope who received new kidney on June 28, leaves Toronto General Hospital yesterday for home in Barrie
Kidney transplant patient 16-year-old Paul Pope who received new kidney on June 28, leaves Toronto General Hospital yesterday for home in Barrie
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He'll be home for Christmas, to stay, if he can, said Toronto heart transplant patient Pietro Ongaro told his wife as he returned to hospital yesterda(...)
He'll be home for Christmas, to stay, if he can, said Toronto heart transplant patient Pietro Ongaro told his wife as he returned to hospital yesterda(...)
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