NEW THEORY OF SIGHT

Hokitika Guardian, 20 January 1925, Page 4

NEW THEORY OF SIGHT

SPRING BY Tills SKIN. A ÜBEXCTI INQUIRY. A deeply engrossing subject is now engaging the attention of the leading scientists and doctors in I‘rance that of getting the blind to see. 1 lie discoverer is M. l.ouis Farigoiilo, an eminent French scientist. .It is his theory that at one time man was able t, ( see bv means of his skin, as well as by his eyes. This faculty, the author'believes, has fallen through disuse into a stale of atrophy. It is Ins astounding claim that human beings possess not two eyes but two principal eyes, and millions upon millions of other smaller organs of vision covering the while surface of the body. At the experiments conducted under distmi,,iiished auspices in Paris in W 23, the sceptical Atiatole France and several of the leading scientists and doctors (opthnlmologists) of Franco were the witnesses, and signed a certificate declaring themselves convinced by -M • Farigoule’s demonstration. The authoHias alreadv started his great workmid is now engaged helping a number „f Trench blind soldiers to obtain vision again. It is a new and startling idea which, in its fullest development urlv alter the lives of thousands oT our (now) blind fellow citizens throughout

the world. Air E. Cholerton, optical specialist, has jvist received a translation of the book, and during the next few months will be investigating the subject.