NEW HOPE FOR BLIND
ULTRA-VIOLET RAY TREATMENT An important experiment has just been successfully concluded at Moorfields, City road, London, the biggest eye hospital in the Etmpire. A yeftr ago a tiny mercury vapour lamp was installed and a clime opened for treating patients suffering from blindness by ultra-violet rays. Since then 100 patients have been treated, and the efficiency of the rays for this purpose, it is claimed, has been proved. The surgeons, says Mr A. J. M. Tarrant, secretary of tho hospital, had a tremendous task before them to find out how the roy would affect such a delicate Organ as the eye, but after months of careful practice and observation they have succeeded in restoring sight to diseased ryes, And by standardising the method of treatment they have literally brought Run3liino into a world of darkness for many, and have opened up the way for a now attack on blindness.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12617, 30 November 1926, Page 11
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153NEW HOPE FOR BLIND New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12617, 30 November 1926, Page 11
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