Suddenly Stricken Blind.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 230, 29 September 1888, Page 3 (Supplement)

Suddenly Stricken Blind.

A catastrophe such' as few.men' have the stoicism to bear and few. survive has,'(says .the ' Cincinnati' Enquirer-) -'ftßin'e 1"a thunderclap''flpon Charles Culltnan, 6f:.52j 'Brown-street,'" Last Saturday iught, while auditing the books of the BellevWßuUdirig1

Asaooiation, at their rooms 'on M'Mickea Ayenue, hb turned suddenly tb! oke Jof ibe Jbystanders and explfkihied," 'Why do you turn out the gas ? Tm nob through yet.' /Turn pub the gas! fWisiab's theniatfcerwitb you? The gas is burnipg.' • My, then I'm' blind,' cried CulGaan, and' I sinking tack in his chair, from which he had arisen in his excitement,; he buried bja. face in his hands and moaned and wept like a child. Dr. Sphwartmeyer, liis regular physician, was hastily sent for, and tmly arrived to confirm the worst fears, Cullman was indeed blind, a premonitory sign, without a warning, the blo'Hr had coma and as he sat there bemoaning his sad fate, eyesgrewdimV Friendstooikhimbythehanii ' .and tjcembled wifch emotiom as Jbhey tried to speak words of hope and comfort. The stricken man only moaned. ' JMy wife i My little ones !'. Drs. Ayres jand Battler,; the npted specialists, were summoned. A diagnosis jfollowed, and it was discpvered .that Cullman had for some time been a sufferer from Bright's disease of thekidneyp. Th^ ;exudations of the albumen from ,thes«!, organs caused ursemie blood-ppisoning, which gradually pervaded the whole Bysteinj of the sufferer. Step by step the disease spread, and contraction of the kiclneys fol» lowed, resulting in inflammation' of the iretina or opticherve, hopelessly destroying the , sight for ever.. The case although not an' isolated one, is extremely Tare, deiath ally ensuing before such crisis arriyes. As [it is, ppor Cullman's days are numbered, and he can scarcely survive a month.