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Hokitika Guardian, 5 July 1924, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL.

.MAN’S NEW EYELIDS. LONDON, April 1(1

Formed from skin taken* from li arm, two eyelids have been grafted o to a man’s face at a Liverpool hoi pital, sind even eyelashes have stnrtc to grow.

The man, it chemist’s assistant, who

desires to remain anonymous, is it citizen of the United States, and came to England from California during the war. While working in a (iretna munitions factory in .June 1917 a phial of sulphuric acid hurst and the liquid splashed over his face. llis left eyelid was completely hurtled away and the other was partly destroyed. Fortunately his eyes escaped.

“Since this accident 1 have stifTered intense agony,” the man said.“My eves, unable to blink, were always dry, and as there were no litis to cover them they were cotttinuaHv tired.

"I became a' patient tit hospitals in various parts of the country, including Carlisle, Edinburgh, Manchester, and Liverpool. At Edinburgh, at attempt to graft now eyelids was unsuccessful. ‘‘About it couple of months ago T entered a Liverpool hospital and a surgeon successfully grafted two eyelids'formed from the skin of my arm.” Th o man’s face shows little indication that' an operation has been performed, and he is now able to close his eves.

SLEEPY SICKNESS MYSTERY. LONDON. April .‘IP. While* doctors all over the country arc searching for the microbe responsible for tlie epidemic of sleepy sieTclicss (encephalitis lethargicu) notv racing iu this country, the chief work of investigation is being conducted by Dr •Tean Rene l’erdrau, pathologst at Lambeth Infirmary, Hrook-street, S.E. Dr Perdrau is an authority on sleepy sickness, which is an affection of the cells of the brain. He is re-1 reiving the support of the Medical Research Council. At the Ministry of Health it was stated that sleepy sickness 'attacks people of all ages, and is just as likely to break out in an isolated village where it has never occurred before as to recur in a city where there have already been cases.

The medical profession is particularly concerned with the after-effects of the complaint, tvhich sometimes change the whole nature of the patient, especially the mental condition. During the first three weeks of April 049 cases of sleepy sickness were reported in England and Wales, making 1,409 cases notified this year, which is three times the number for the corresponding period last year and seven times as many as in 1922.

£10,000,000 BRIDE. NEW YORK, April 20 In the Church of All Souls, erected hy the bride’s father oil his magnificent estate at Baltimore, North Carolina, the wedding was solemnised to-day of Cornelia, youngest daughter of .Mrs George Vanderbilt, and the Hon John Francis Amherst Cecil, son of Lorti' William Cecil and, until recently, secretary to the British Embassy at Washington. A picturesque feature of the celebration was the assembly of several hundred tenants and servants of the estate who last night serenaded the bride with whistles. The bride's gown was of white satin with very straight long sleeves. She wore a veil ol tulle four yards long on which were orange blossoms from a r lorida plantation. Her bouquet consisted of orchids and lilies of the valley, and she wore white satin slippers ornamented with orange blossoms.

The bridesmaids were in gowns of soft green flowered Japanese silk with small cloche uutrimmcd hats of white horsehair.

As the couple left the church they passed under an arch of branches laden with spring blossoms held by tenants and servants.

Several hundred guests attended the breaktasi. 'J he bride’s table was m a circular palm room and was in tne iorm oi a letter around a fountain with a design of a boy and a .‘Willi.

The couple return in the summer to reside on the estate, where Mr Cecil will devote himself to developing plans conceived hy the bride’s late father.

11 he bride’s lather, .Mr George \V.* \ anderbilt, died m 11)1*1, leaving her chief beneficiary under his win. She received a quarter of the principal when she dime of age in 1!,‘21, and on her 25th birthday, in August next year, will receive the remainder, as well as £1,000,000 left in trust hy her grandfather. She is a cousin of Mine. Consuelo Balsan, formerly Duchess of -Marlborough).

WATER CIIPTH PIONEER. LONDON, May 10

News was received in Loudon yesterday of ihe death in the United Slates of Captain Paul Boyion. 7.‘t. He was well known years ago in connection with waterehutes, of which he was a pioneer at Earl’s Court, S.W., and other exhibitions, and also at Blackpool, Southend, and Yarmouth. Captain lioyton was also the inventor of a life-saving apparatus and wading hoots, lie came over from NeW York in a liner in IX7O and leaving the ship off the toast of Ireland, landed at* an unfrequented spot. The Irish, when they saw him approaching the shore in his peculiar dress ol hoots, look him to IHi a devil.

After a series of experiments C’apt. Boyion exhibited his life-preserving dress in Cowes Harbour before Queen Victoria in April 1875, and received from the Queen a gold watch and chain. Five davs later he attempted to cross Hie Channel in his life-saving dress, but had to abandon the effort after being in the water about 15 hours and covering more than 50 miles. In Juno of the same year lie crossed the Channel from Cape Grisliest and walked ashore at Karo Bay, Kent, within 20 hours. In 1870 he swaifi for more than ICO miles in ihe Italian River 80.