OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 85, 9 April 1880, Page 2

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

BLINDXESS AND DEAFNESS. We can conscientiously recotnmsnd those suffering from deafness or other ailments that Dr Grant has made a special study of, to pay him a visit, when, if curable p&tients, they may certainly expect relief. An instance came under our epscial notice on Thursday, in the case of a man named Chas. I Swanson, who has been very deaf for three years, but after ten days' treatment, can now he.r perfectly even the lowest whfspsr. The cure is rather a remarkable one, as he has been nnder the care of many medical men, but he received no benefit whatever from their treatment.—" Few Zaalander," December 27,1879. By the kind invitation of Profe? «or Wallenburg and Dr. Grant, the editor of this j ourna', in company with the editor of the Silurday Advertiter, visited' their consulting roomo, at the Criterion Hotel, yesterday morning. The first case ehown was that of a Miss White, aged 11 years, the daughter of a settler at Oamaru who has been totally blind for years, Thia young lady haa been under the treatment of these clever oculists for three days, and, worderfnl to say, her eyesight has been perfectly restored. The father cftho girl assured as that he had placed her under the care of several medical men, who had failed to do her any goad, despits the money he lavished upon her. The next was the casa of a Mis 3 Hughes, a Dunedin reeident, who stated that she had been deaf for a period of over three years. Strange to say, she had only been under treatment for eight dajs, and ber hearing has been fully restored. This fortunate girl is nearly in ecstao'ea over her good fortune. The editor of tbis journal, accompanied by Mr. J. J. Connor, visited the oculists' consulting-rooms at the Criterion Hotel this morning. The first person the (ditor conversed with was Daniel. Mahoney, a laborer, reading at Logan's Point, who stated that he lia i been totally blind for some two weeks, through a severe cold he had contracted. He bad been under privete treatment lor a week, but he had got worse instead of letter. He was brought to Professor Wallenburg on tho 11th inst., «ni since then he has been under this clever oculist's treatment, with the result that he is now recovering the sight of both e3 es. John Chalmers, a brickmaker, residing at Pelkhtt Bay, etated that he had been bJind of the right eye for over nine weeks, and the let one WBS commencing to ba affected by the right one. He was under treatment at the hospital, but without any beneficial result. He had been under Profepocr Wallenburg'o treatmtnt three weeks, and he now can discern the smallest object with both eyes. Patrick Connor, a miner, residing at Hindon, was the next ratient consulted. He had been totally blind of the right eye for three months, and bad been in the hospital unier treatment, ' which, he states, tended to make tho right eye woree, and to injure the left one. He went under Professor Wallenburg'a treatment on the 9th October, and now hi' is perfectly tured, and intends afarting f> follow hia cafliogon Monday next.— Tuapeka Times, 15 h November, 1879.