LION'S GLASS EYE.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13188, 7 August 1908, Page 6

LION'S GLASS EYE.

A novel surgical operation. Ira» P<*£S| formed at Earl's Court, London, mgg cently, an' endeavour being made tho first time to 'equip a lion *rtkj£|| glass eye. Nero and Brutus, €l ® lions in Bostock's Circus at Court. Some weeks ". ago they &M"* J quarrel—a serious quarrel—folkweff OT-4. a fight. And out of the fight >*&:% came with only one eye. As £»&$ there was a lady in the case, a yoaMfe| lioness, who was a heartless coq«M£j..3s| Nero is now wondering whether W r worth an eye. But now he has P*J«%si ally recovered', it was considered tms time had come when it was possiwotts| fit him up with a glass cyo in P'»*>,| of /the one he has. lost. N<»ro did «*# see the matter in this remaining eye, of course. And on M**-* urdav ho strenuously resisted in *.*vi| forts* of nine men armed with stoutg ropes and heavy chains and eff«CU»A| pitchforks. After a-long was dragged' up to the bars of 5».*W« and a big wooden gag fixed in Mfeg mouth. Mr E. H. Scott, then ejected morphia into the of the lion, who was roaring with fear and It was w»m« WJMlgfc I>efore he was sufficiently under "/-.?£.s fliience of the drug to.permit 01 eye being fixed in the vacant It is about ono and a half and matches the other eye. }™j£M Nero recovered, consciousness, he ,<>«» S;| seem altogether satisfied with his BfJiJ eve. Two or three vigorous *}***.?£§ his head, and tho eye fell out on J»» floor of the cage, so that aU tho Wfei Wo had been taken in vain. ",»jj usual in these orations to P«* ff{| smaller eve in first, and to «f*"??JM for a larger one in a few weeks «»V;j I A larger eye was t«. be procured u*j?J inserted. , ; -;*;-;■