SPECIALIST’S SECRET

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1940, Page 8

SPECIALIST’S SECRET

PATIENT SEES OWN EYE SAVED.

While Mr J. Stanley Holmes, National M.P. for Harwich, was walking through a Surrey wood with a shooting party just over 18 months ago he was struck in the left eye by a twig. Mr Holmes thought nothing of the slight pain, and went on with his shooting. A few days later his eye began to ache and he found he could not see at all well. An abscess had formed, and he was told to have an operation. This was performed in London and was successful.

Mr Holmes thought he was cured. Last Christmas morning when he locked in the mirror he saw to his alarm that his eye was again inflamed. It got worse; this time he thought he would lose the sight of it. He determined to go abroad for help.

Mr Holmes had heard of the fame of Professor Vogt, of Zurich, the Swiss eye specialist, who had treated Signor Mussolini, Mr de Valera, and Sir Samuel Hoare.

He decided tp go to him, and, with his wife, left London on January 13. Three days later, in a Zurich nursing home, Professor Vogt operated.

“I could see with my right eye everything that was being done to my left.” said Mr Holmes to a “Sunday Express” representative. The professor used a process known only to himself. The operation lasted an hour and a-half.

A few weeks ago Mr Holmes returned to England, cured. . “Professor Vogt told mo that my sight would not be affected in any way in the future,” said Mr Holmes.