Looking back at Orpheus

• Degeneration
• treatment surgery
• cornea
• inflammation
• medical education
• wound healing
• eye (tissue) banking
• neoplasia
• choroid
• ciliary body
• cornea
• eye lids

The poet Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, ‘One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.’

A single glance can represent synchrony of thought, an unspoken bond between close friends and family. Glancing back however is often a symbol of a reluctance to look forward, to be distracted, dwell on the past and remain static.

To the ancient Greeks, Orpheus was a legendary prophet, poet and musician.1 The Greek myth of Orpheus and …