I'm curious how advancements in medicine influenced the design and production of prosthetic eyes.

Yeah.

Well, there was definitely a very close connection to it, especially in terms of advances in eye surgery.

As I said before, the mid-19th century, eye surgery was frequently a death sentence because of infection and hemorrhaging probably.

And so no matter how bad an eye might be and it might have a tumor on it that was growing and might have other kinds of really horrible conditions to it.

Surgeons were extremely reluctant to remove an eye because of the danger of mortality.

So once anesthetics and some other safety advances, I guess, in terms of pansepsis became more available in the second half of the 19th century, eye surgery took off in ways, and it was then possible to remove an eye much more safely.

Is that something you were aware of all along, or was there a moment that shifted your thinking about that?