EXTRAORDINARY RECOVERY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 181, 31 July 1915, Page 15

EXTRAORDINARY RECOVERY.

Medical men on both Bides of the Channel hnve .been greatly interested In the case of a yonng soldier, Rifleman Pointer, who Is in the lltth County of Rifles aud Iβ now n patlcut at the 4th Northern General Hospital, Lincoln. Formerly ho was omnlojNid by n flrm of silversmiths In New Oxford Streot, and his home is in HampUcad Road. By tho terrific eiploHlon of a shell Telntor w«n denrired or «peech and hearing. Ho ha" now regained hie speech, and It Is anticipated thut he will eventually regain hearing in the right ear. "Before I left Boulogne," Pointer explained, "tho doctor had mc tn his room, nnd told mc that nothing but my owti effort would bring my epeecn bark, Ho teld mo to keep shaping my meuth as If I were pronouncing tlio'vowels. Ever since I have been In Lincoln I bad heen trying this, and was huecessfnl the oilier night, but found I could not carry on next night. I determined to niako some sort of show, and suddenly found I couia speak. 1 kept jawing to myself all night In case it went again. 1 saw the nighl sister flying around, anil il was in my mind to say something Io her, bill iben I thought she might faint, and I remembered thai a man would be coining round wlih a cup of tea at live 111 the morning, and thought 1 would give him a shoi-Ji instead. So when he cjime along with the ien, and was Just putting it on the table. I said, 'Shove il there, old son!' lie uenrly shot the tc.i over inc. Then he fctrhMl the Bister, and everybody seemed Inclined te Wse~pe." __, ' , .