GIRL'S SIGHT RESTORED

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 102, 27 May 1909, Page 4

GIRL'S SIGHT RESTORED

AFTER TWENTY-TWO YEARS OF BLINDNESS. ... . London, April 5. Alter twenty-two years of total blind- > ness f a young woman named Moon, who mes with her parents in the little i Derbyshire colliery village of Mapperley, is recovering her sight under extraordinary circumstances. "In IBS 7 I had a prolonged illness fol- : lowing sunstroke, and was' kept in a (lark room for three months," she toid an interviewer. -'The first occasion I , ... went out of doors after it was to wit- , ness a procession formed in commemoration of Queen Victoria's jubilee, i I was only eight, but the whole scene5 cene 18 |naelibly impressed on mv mind, fce «""e it was the last thing "i ever witnessed. ! ' Shadows seemed to creep over mv . ®r«. small objects were indiscernible, and later larger ones faded from view. < darknwg plun £ e(l i,,to total

t,le Midland Taiiltntion ■v. ■ lor tne Blind at Nottingham, where J was treated most kindly, mid, beside . " e J n £ taught to read and write, 1 -p----eeived instruction in fancy knitting ami • ean« work. b T having been there nine years ' i r ? lt urnc *> ome j and but for one more rnit.leas endeavor to regain mv sight, I received no medical treatment for .twenty year*.

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