SIGHT RESTORED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14133, 7 August 1909, Page 2 (Supplement)

SIGHT RESTORED.

BLIND MAN MADE TO SEE AT LONDON HOSPITAL.

Brilliantly successful results have attended an operation performed upon a South African gentleman, Mr. B. Cahl, who was recently treated at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital The injury which caused total blindness in both eyes was the result of an explosion in a gold mine at Johannesburg in March, 1908. "After the explosion," Mr. Cahl said to a Mail interviewer, "I called out in the darkness for some of the boys to bring a candle. When one of them finally insisted he .was holding a lighted candle before my face I knew I was blind. I was in hospital in" Johannesburg under several doctors for the next three months, and then in July came to London, and was treated at the London Ophthalmic Hospital. Becoming impatient I went to Vienna, where I consulted two different eye specialists. Both told me there was absolutely no hope of my ever regaining my sight, and advised me to enter a home for the blind. I returned to the London Ophthalmic Hospital, and in February of this year an operation was performed on my left eye (the right having been totally destroyed), and. now, by means of glasses, I can see fairly well and even read ; fine print." LABOURER ' SEES AGAIN*. A remarkable case of recovery of lost sight, has occurred at Faversham.' After being totally blind for 15. months, George Black, a labouring man, can now see quite well again, and, of course, he'hardly knows how to be thankful enough for his good fortune. His blindness was due to cataract over both eyes, and the successful operations which • have restored his vision to him were performed by Dr. Cooper at ■' Chatham Hospital, , .