GIRL “SEES” AFTER 18 YEARS
Almost blind from birth, Miss Alice Margaret Vernal!, aged 18, of Queen’s road. Walthamstow. has always dreamed that she would be able to see one day! Now her belief is coming true, after a delicate operation at the Royal Eye Hospital, S.E. Tlie cornea from the eye of a London postman, whose complaint made it inevitable that he would lose it, was removed and grafted on to hers at the hospital. She was told that there was a “ slender chance ” of the operation being successful. Now, nine weeks afterwards, she can read 1J in letters, distinguish the colours of many fabrics, and see a person’s hand moved in front of her face. Hitherto she has never been able to out in the street alone, but in a few weeks she hopes to be able to see objects dearly enough to make it safe to walk about.—‘ Observer.’
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Evening Star, Issue 22448, 19 September 1936, Page 7
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152GIRL “SEES” AFTER 18 YEARS Evening Star, Issue 22448, 19 September 1936, Page 7
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