TO RESTORE SIGHT
— - —«■ — EXPERIMENTS IN FHANCE. I learn from Nice (says a writer in tho "Poll Mall Oazeti'ie") that M. Kami, a Polish savant, who is a soldier in tho French Foreign Legion, has invented an apparatus by which he hopes to restoie the sight of men who have lost their sight through wounds. The apparatus is in the form of a mask, or half-mask, which is pldced on. the face of. the blind man, and connected by wires with a portable electrical induction apparatus. Lenses, tolal reflection prisms, a. camera filtering the light rays, and- phosphorescent plaques complete the apparatus. The principle of the invention is progressive re-education, varying in period with each subject and tho length ol time which the blindness has existed, lilind men who have been subjected to the experiment for a fe'iv hours daily have successively perceived, instead of the yellowish grey tint which habitually replaces sight: (1) All the colours of the Blicctrnm beginning with- red; (2) natural white light; (3) shadows and their objects in this light.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 75, 23 December 1918, Page 9
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174TO RESTORE SIGHT Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 75, 23 December 1918, Page 9
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