BUND CURED.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 710, 8 January 1910, Page 12

BUND CURED.

.''Arramartablri ■c^;?ifi'a::-OToman : -:wlio born .blind being' , made: to-;see;by; a surgical ; : operation::is '.' recorded .'i by;:'■'.. the "Kent v Messenger.','•'' ■;: '■• ;r v ! •;■:<■:-;:;•■'-.'■..•■'':'. '■ .The; patient • is ■ Hiss" Annie;.-Hubbard, 'ajed : 30;/of Orchard •: Street, • Maidstone, .:ljrisuccbssrul.'operatio;i3 ; wer"e:.carried out in her youth; and-slio. entered ;St.-George'a iilindi School,:. Squthwark.-.now.'.xemoved to.- iLoatherhead.;'- 'There '■■:'. she i'learned . brusHmaking, .bastet;. work,-: .reading,': ; and Ityp'e-writingiV ; Afterwards sho .';•;.renir'ned' home;: resigned;, to the. ; piospedte:'of ..r sightless" lifo.v'v. V h'y^ur^-.'^-'^i'' ■■'■lliss , Hubbard-, was .'recently,; urged -to ■go',:.to.',Maidstone:',Ophthalmio : ; .Hospital, iivliora:.'a ■successful ■ .onehitirin,' consisting of,"cutting ~a"nevy' ; pupil ini; the- iris.'-Was carried''but;i;;^:'. : :i-;v.'"fi'' :.■■.-'■■:'y : >!'/.\''"i.i.. "'.'•■" '•v-."lt-'seemed,'':,'she;'eayg/;"as '.if .comething I'acrose ,my '.eye. without I 'pain, .and,;tKei..'everything; seemed'. lytitein':the','bperating"',';room. ; . My::eye;!;was bandaged at,' pncej' ! and .when it.wa'siunbahdaged ■in- , thevward^ , l -could see;,the nurse's, face, .yhito.; cap, , and ■ dark -''dress." ; .Miisv; , Hubbard, , ; after';obtaining'v'sight, idescribed a tree "as': looking, '*like ,a!'till, 'dark' , thing thafispreads out: at , the.top," :and; aihorse ,83: being .''very';large; Tnth;a'::;loiigYvbody "on ' legs." • ■:■} : :■■' - :' ;£C ft. i; - •-■' Her- sight is: imperfect:.at present;Jb'ut! ,)lat6fj. it' is hoped; the;, use,,of ; glaSsesfjnfiJi' 'greatly improve' it,'.-;,;•'■:■.'; C :■''■ t '¥'""!•■• ■ !