GIRL’S SIGHT RESTORED.
ABLE TO SEE AFTER 22 YEARS OF BLINDNESS.
After 22 years of total blindness a young woman named Moon, who lived with her parents in the little Derbyshire colliery village of Mapperley, is recovering her sight under extraordinary circumstances.
“In 1887 I had a prolonged illness following sunstroke, and was kept in a dark room for three mouths,” she told an Express representative. “The first occasion I went out of doors after, it was to witness a procession formed in commemoration of Queen Victoria’s Jubilee. “I was only eight, but the whole scene is indelibly impressed on my mind because it was the last thing I ever witnessed. “Shadows seemed to creep over my eyes, small objects were indiscernible, and later larger ones faded from view, until at last I was plunged into total blackness.
“1 was sent to the Midland Institution for the Blind at Nottingham, where I was. treated most kindly, and, besides being taught to read and write, I received in struction in fancy knitting and cane work. “After I bad been there nine years I returned home, and but for one more frutless endeavour to regain my sight, I received no medical treatment for twenty years.
“Nearly eight monihs ago my father told me that a companion who had been at the institution with me had partially recovered his sight, and I decided to take the same treatment from a Manchester specialist. “Just the reverse of what happened 22 years ago now appears to be happening. At first I perceived the difference between day and night. Now, with my left eye I can distinguish large objects, and I am full of hope that before long I shall he able to see as well as I did twenty-two long years ago.
“They have not been sad years. Everybody has beeh so kind, and I have been kept well supplied with books. Scott is my favourite. I have a large number of his novels on my bookshelf. “I earn my own living, but just now I can think of nothing else but the joy of returning sight.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 463, 29 June 1909, Page 4
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352GIRL’S SIGHT RESTORED. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 463, 29 June 1909, Page 4
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