RECOVERS SIGHT

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 453, 22 June 1937, Page 2

RECOVERS SIGHT

SOUTH AFRICAN GIRL 8000 Miles For Operation London, May 22. Evelyn Doreen Berry, 14-year-old Souiih African, travelled 8000 miles from Johannesburg to Edinburgh to undergo an operation on the brain for the removal of a malignant tumour. Mr. Norman Dott, brain -- cialist, successfully performed che operation—the biggest triumph of hlf career. Evelyn, blind for two years, is slowly recovering her sight.

She could haitdly see th paper she wrote on but she was • ble ( ‘o compose this letter unaided in block capitals: “Dear Mr Dott, —I have thanked you before for what you did for me, but now that I am able to enjoy life once again, 1 think I shouldthank you in a mors lasting way than by just Saying it. I cannot write very much because it was rather’difficult. But I want you to know that I Cm grateful, and that I will always remember! that you saved my life when everybody else failed.—Yours sincerely, Eva Berry.”

Although Evelyn has never seen Mr. Dott, she was able >io describe him with surprising accuracy. She tiiid: “When T heard him speak first he wag not talking to me, but to someone else. I pictured him as a very big, strong man. When they took me into the operating theatre I knew I was going to have my head cut ■ op?n, and I knew I only had la little chance of coming through it, but Mr. Dott made me feel as if I would be smiling at the end of it And. I was, too.”