STRANGE STORY
Forty-seven years without, closing his eyes, than a period of total blindness, followed by complete restoration of this is the experience of John Randolph Watson, who was a photographer in Tndiano'la (U.S.), and in 1856 an expWon of chemicals burned away his eyelids although the sight wa3 not affected. But with unprotected eye 3 hs continued for nearly half a century, three years of the period being spent in Alaska, where the severity of the climate caussd cataracts to form on both eyes .and blindness. He went to Philadelphia lniter, where he formerly lived for a time, and was at the Hahnemann Hospital, and by grafting flesh from his leg lie got a new get of eyelids. The success of the operation is now assured. The cataracts, were removed and the sight has been restored.
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Evening Star, Issue 17192, 6 November 1919, Page 3
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137STRANGE STORY Evening Star, Issue 17192, 6 November 1919, Page 3
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