NERVE DISEASES
MIRACLE OPERATIONS. Details of a new “miracle operation” which is effecting amazing cures in diseases ranging from blindness to epilepsy, and from paralysis to brain disorders, were recently disclosed to the “Sunday Chronicle.’’ At the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in London many cases which had been looked upon as hopeless are being cured every week. The chief feature of the operation is the withdrawal of a small quantity of the fluid in which the brain floats. Tests are made to diagnose the disease, and the necessary curative injections are made which are effecting “miracle cures.” “Two outstanding cures have been successfully dealt with only recently,” an official told the “Sunday Chronicle.”
“One concerned an 18-year-old boy from the East End of London. “From the age of 11 he had been a martyr to fits, sometimes as many as two or three in one day. His parents took him to numerous specialists and hospitals, but finally they were on the point of abandoning the case as hopeless. “Then he was brought to the National, where expert nerve specialists diagnosed a tumour on the brain. The new ‘miracle operation’ was performed and the boy was completely cured.’’ The second cure was that of 23-year-old Miss Elsie Cross, who suddenly found her sight- growing dim. within the space of two days she became totally blind. “For six months she went from specialist to specialist. The greatest ophthalmic experts were unable to help her. “The first thing we did when she came to the National,” the official continued, “was to tickle her feet I Experts had spent their time examining her eyes, so we left them alone. “Next we pricked parts of her skin with pins and applied hot and cold water to different parts of her body. We found it was not her eyes which were diseased but the nerves between the eyes and the brain. 1
“Fluid was drawn from the brain, injections were made, and in little over a month her sight was completely restored.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume VLI, Issue 3421, 18 December 1935, Page 7
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