STRANGE STORY.
Forty-sevea years without «lusi»a his eyes, then a period of total blindness, followed V.y complete restoration of sight, this is the experience cf John Kandolp Watson, who was a photographer in Fndianola (L T .S ), and in 185' ian explosion cf chemicals burned away bis eyelid?, although the sight was not affect. But with unprotected cjTCo be cuiiliuutal tor neatly ii.di t cenfu'y. three years of '*-e i>-ik»l being >-|icmi ic Alaska, wh».i»- ibe «ov>:iiy of tijc climate >::it..<r•<•!«. to form on belli <*«id Mmduese. He wuut to Philadelphia later, where he formerly lived fui » time, and waa at the Hahnemann Hospital, and by grafting fle=h from hi* leg he got a new set of eyelid?. success of the operation •« now *saur»d The cataracts were removed -»"' l -h- sight li;« been rbdUllbd.
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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 1210, 3 December 1919, Page 6
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134STRANGE STORY. Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 1210, 3 December 1919, Page 6
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