SIGHT RESTORED
REMARKABLE CASE
LONDON, 21st December. The "British Medical Journal" records a remarkable case of sight recovery after 27 years' blindness, following an operation by Dr. Norman Fleming, a London ophthalmic surgeon. _ The patient was a woman of 35, who since the ago of eight, had been able to distinguish only between light and dark.
Before her operation she was employed as a telephone operator, but was always in poor health.
"She is now vigorously healthy, with a good complexion," says Dr. Fleming, "is learning to read and write, and. iCQies.ta become a shorthand-typist,'-^
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 2, 4 January 1932, Page 8
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95SIGHT RESTORED Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 2, 4 January 1932, Page 8
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