Blindness Cured.
'- — - + : —^_ ■ ■:■ ■ •■ The following which came' to us from a reliable correspondent is. worthy ja( all the publicity that can possibly be given to it. Our correspondent .writes— ■, Considerinctbat the folio wing, cure-from-blindness .-ought to; be ; extensively <tnade; ; known, I send you a brief account of it» trusting you may find a smaH'space in the "Clufba Leader" for- its -insertion. A reopeptable settler in Ea>t Tokornairiro; Mr • ; John Strain, lost his eight several years ■ ajjo. .To all appearance he was' helplessly and hopejcf sly blind. Lately he was ad- --.. vised to have his eyes examined by a certain doctor in Duriedin, but that gentle-• " man's opinion was discounting, to* Mr- -... Strain. Beiog in to wn at any rate, he, Me; S,, ihougbt be would consult "a ' certain" msOicil practitioner ttiere-'whorn'he^itnew. He :djd..?p, .andfrpra him he,.gat\Bonie enand He advised, Mr Strain tb ; go "to Cftf istchurcb 'and consult Dr Powell, a skilful oculist:' The* advice' , taken. He went to Christclmrjch, ae-4, •'-. c^mpani^d by '■'■'i I ' few reiaitiVesT r Dr PSw|lj^ received them courteously; t He: tb\d 'Mr ' Strain th^tß;ght could oot be restpred to.one ( of his eyes, but thaVhe' would perform' an operation uporithe;oth&v< Theabctor && fo,..and took only about five rninutei ia , its pertorraance. ; He- told Mr c 'Slram'ancl" his f fiertds- 'that^a seeon f d ! fdp6r'atibTfl^w6 i nld be njeceisary before sight could be^wstoredi to the eye, and that it could nojt be per,--,foßmet f :for:seHfal E yg r eks J i-They r £n&ef6^ 'Xetarned to Tokonmiriro, remaiaediaufin? the required interval, and thea^went back to Chrißtchxi¥cW-®r Powell ; peTfoyM the. : operation, which was a sligffttfbne; when done Mr r Strain. saw> tHe jdoctoPi'h-Knd' 5 stfave^ 4 '^ < W& 1 rdocl|or!s'a;b«refe-.wag f ext>em#ly maag^le— ißpi,MB 2 Stc^n mpmUeraiwfflhht '*kMp^rain pd hk&rok^for (9fef they feef very thUnkTut. ,'le 'cari This is writtexnrith Mr Sfcwn's ■Mk concurrence. Indeed|lAe eujoya the inTOKiufrior jt^ that he ia anxions toiiiforin othet^.^w*sahW c^jßßt ;mrw¥S. • of God,, lor the B€3torAtw : n!o63(Ehat /-
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Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 32, 18 February 1875, Page 3
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