\"Eye Tissue Preservation\" John Harry King, Jr Signed FDC Dated 1952 For Sale

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\"Eye Tissue Preservation\" John Harry King, Jr Signed FDC Dated 1952:
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Up for sale a RARE! "Eye Tissue Preservation" John Harry King, Jr Signed First Day Cover

ES-1957

A native of Washington, DC, Dr. King

attended Georgetown University and Georgetown Medical School, receiving a

degree in Medicine in 1933. After his residency, he served 20 years as an

ophthalmologist in the US Army, spending most of his peacetime active duty in

Hawaii and Washington. During World War II, he served both in Europe and the

Pacific. He retired in 1955 from his post as Chief of Ophthalmology at Walter

Reed Army Medical Center. He was a dynamo. His boundless energy and innovative

mind involved him in several careers simultaneously. He became a corneal

surgeon of international repute and conducted a very successful private

practice in Washington, DC after his retirement from the Army in 1955. While

serving in the Army's Ocular Research Unit at Walter Reed, he devised a process

for preserving eye tissue that involved dehydration and storage in glycerin in

vacuum tubes. The corneal tissue this process provided let to eye banking and

soon the banked corneas were being shipped throughout the world. Being the

humanitarian he was with teams of corneal surgeons, he organized repeated

expeditions to remote areas in the Pacific, Asia, South America, Central

America, Africa, and the Middle East. he quickly became known to most

ophthalmologists in these areas because his expertise and banked corneas were

the only hope for preventing blindness in a large percentage of their patients.

Dr. King founded and directed many professional organizations. First, he worked

with The Lions Club of the District of Columbia and founded the Washington Eye

Bank, then the Eye Bank Association of America, next the International Eye

Foundation for which he remained Medical Director from 1961 until shortly

before his death. IEF was his labor of love for he was at his best while

applying his charming and persuasive manner to attract government and private

funds to support a global organization. He utilized many ophthalmologists on

station in remote areas totally dedicated to preventing blindness. He was a

founding member of the Board of Care-Medico, the former medical arm of CARE. He

also founded and directed The Society of Military Ophthalmologists which is

still active today Despite all these many accomplishments, he wrote more than

100 scientific papers and 4 textbooks. His international stature is attested to

by his position as a Knight of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem which

supports the St. John Eye Hospital in Jerusalem. He was also a member of the

Knight of Malta. In 1982 he received the Distinguished Humanitarian Award

from the Pan-American Association of Ophthalmology. He was the recipient of the

Frances J. Garner Memorial Award from the Lions District of the Washington Eye

Bank.

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