“…2 The second wave of corneal transplantation procedures began after the Second World War, Aladár Kettesy started to perform keratoplasties in the eastern part of Hungary, at the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Debrecen between 1945 and 1954. 3 He introduced and described the 'bio-suture' (a biomaterial prepared from rat tail tendon fibres), a novel surgical technique for graft fixation, and summarized the experiences in an ophthalmic surgical textbook. 4 He and his disciple, Béla Alberth who performed about 3000 keratoplasties, following new principles, using new surgical methods, made Debrecen the centre of corneal transplantation surgery.…”